An employee who experienced "serious and repeated" s-xual harassment at work has won an extra $129k in damages, after a court found the original $10k awarded was "inadequate in the extreme".
A director s-xually harassed an employee when he slapped her on the bottom and twice declared his feelings for her, the Federal Court has found in ordering his employer to pay $268k in damages and compensation.
Employers' new obligations to proactively eliminate s-xual harassment and prevent psychosocial harm at work are set to have an impact on HR teams that shouldn't be underestimated, a workplace lawyer says.
Nearly two-thirds of Australian business leaders are expecting a rise in employee activism, with pay inequalities and the cost of living predicted as the main drivers for negotiations, according to new research.
Australian businesses are in "a really risky situation at the moment", with new research showing the leading indicators of employee experience are stagnating or declining.
Two related companies and a director, who sexually harassed multiple young employees, have been convicted and fined a total of $290k. Meanwhile the Federal Government is reportedly rolling back some casual reforms in the Closing Loopholes Bill.
A workplace futurist is warning a period of "conscious" proximity bias is looming, in light of a survey that found most CEOs plan to reward workers for returning to the office.
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