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Employers must tread carefully if they withdraw a job offer after an employee has already accepted it. In this case, it amounted to a dismissal.

A worker who was assaulted while socialising with teenage girls in a park has failed to convince a court the injuries were work-related.

A chef has been awarded $16k compensation after a tribunal found his employer concocted a sexual harassment issue as an expedient reason to dismiss him. 

With extensive media coverage surrounding the release of "gender pay gap" data by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), it's important to understand what the data actually demonstrates.

If an employee is sick on a public holiday, should payment for the day be as a public holiday or as personal/carer’s leave? Learn more about sick leave and public holiday entitlements here.

Most outdoor workers are fairly well-informed about sun safety, but many don’t take the precautions they should, despite living where the rates of skin cancer are among the highest in the world.

Considering she’d punched a co-worker in the face, a woman’s dismissal was not unfair, a commission has found.

Is it lawful to secretly record a conversation in the workplace on a smartphone or any other device?

The federal IR system applies to most Australian employers and their employees, including those in Queensland.