The FWO has received 2,878 discrimination complaints since it began operating in July 2009, but has commenced litigation over only four, leading to three enforceable undertakings, the agency told recent Senate Estimates hearings.
The jobs board that will enable Australian jobseekers to express their interest in positions at resources mega-projects ahead of foreign workers brought in under Enterprise Migration Agreements will be operating within days, DEEWR has told an Estimates hearing in the wake of Canberra granting the first EMA last week.
A House of Representatives committee that is to conduct a review of workplace bullying will consider matters such as the role of workplace culture and the ability of policies to curb it.
Two former senior employees of a prominent Adelaide financial planning and stockbroking firm who set up their own company after being dismissed - taking many of their former clients with them - are now subject to a 12-month court-ordered restraint under a settlement reached this week.
The Federal Court has fined a labour hire company that admitted after a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation that it refused to hire a married couple because they were not members of the MUA.
A former Flight Centre assistant store manager has today lodged an adverse action claim that alleges he was victimised by his manager after complaining about bullying of a colleague by a store manager and that the company, including its HR manager, failed to take action to halt the conduct.
The SDA has today lost its Federal Court appeal against Fair Work Australia's variation of the modern retail award to allow school students to work shifts of less than three hours.
Queensland Health must pay $21,000 compensation to a nurse for imposing "one size fits all" rostering requirements on her that she could not meet due to impairment caused by a head injury.
Union membership increased by 46,900 to 1,834,700 in the 12 months to August last year as the labour force grew, leading to a slight rise in density to 18.4%, up from 18.3%.
An HR outsourcing company has successfully enforced a two-year restraint provision - with all but three months of that on full pay - against one of its founders, whose ability to attract clients was likened to "sprinkling fairy dust".
