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A senior manager at Aldi is claiming the supermarket chain discriminated against him on the ground of sex by denying him access to parental leave.

Employees often leave the workplace during a lunch break, but can you insist they don’t?

If an employee on a fixed-term contract completes the work before the specified end date, are they entitled to redundancy pay?

If an employee has regularly worked additional hours, should this be considered when calculating redundancy entitlements? Read an explanation of what the Fair Work Act says.

What should you do if a restraint order (such as an Apprehended Violence Order) is issued against an employee? Learn more here about how to handle this situation.

How are we coping with mental health and what can we do to cope better? Read on to find out the details from Comcare, Beyond Blue and the Future of Work Institute speakers.  

It is relatively rare for aggravated damages to be awarded in harassment decisions. That's what make this case so interesting.

The Federal Court has fined a labour supplier and a contractor after ruling they took adverse action against a 70-year old grader operator by refusing to employ him because of his age. The labour-hire firm was fined more than twice as much as the employer. Read how the court reached its decision.

A Queensland court awarded an employee over $300,000 after a public demotion led to severe psychiatric injury, deeming the employer negligent for failing to ensure privacy despite knowing the employee’s mental health history.

Leave without pay is additional to any other form of leave that an employee is entitled to take. Learn more here about unpaid leave obligations.