A mineworker who along with his workmates bullied a hardworking colleague and used their vehicles to box him in on a highway has failed to convince the FWC he was unfairly dismissed.
The FWC has thrown out a teacher's anti-bullying application after he withdrew his acceptance of settlement terms that included relocation to a new workplace and anger management support and sought to re-activate his case.
The IEU has underlined one of the challenges facing initiators of equal pay cases, revealing that three years after it joined United Voice and the AEU in seeking equal remuneration orders for early childhood educators, it is struggling to identify a "comparator" profession.
A contracts manager and a team leader of a construction company that took adverse action against a subcontractor it refused to hire because its enterprise agreement wasn't endorsed by the CFMEU have been fined almost $2,000 each for the part they played in their employer's contraventions.
The FWC has agreed to suppress the identity of an employee representative who signed off on an enterprise agreement on the condition he would remain anonymous, because he feared victimisation in the workplace after the ETU resolved to oppose it.
A bill introduced to Queensland's Parliament by IR Minister Grace Grace yesterday ushers in a new regime for workplace discrimination, and for the first time, provides protections against adverse action and bullying.
A high school maths teacher says he was racially discriminated against when a colleague suggested he was making their staffroom look like film star Angelina Jolie's family.
Former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick says a culture of sexual harassment in the Australian Federal Police is so "pervasive" that almost one in two females and 20% of males have experienced it in the past five years.
The FWC has dismissed a bid for anti-bullying orders because the alleged instances of bullying flowed from the employee's actions and the employer's directions in response were lawful and reasonable.
