A major investigation into the travel insurance industry in Australia has uncovered widespread unlawful mental health discrimination, prompting some of the companies involved to change their policies. The eight-month investigation was conducted by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights…
A decision by Qantas to refuse access to a woman with her disability support dog has been labelled 'unfair', despite the airline claiming the animal did not meet strict training requirements. The decision was made despite the current Federal Disability…
In a bid to promote gender diversity, United Airlines has become the first carrier in the US to offer non-binary gender options for passengers when they book a flight. Customers will now have the ability to identify themselves as M(male),…
Qantas has been accused of exploiting young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees for cheap labour, without offering them a chance of a career with the airline. The mother of a former Qantas Indigenous trainee has accused the airline of…
A Qantas pilot who was sacked for drunkenly touching the breast of a colleague in a taxi while on an overseas stopover, has lost his unfair dismissal claim. While the Fair Work Commission accepted that the pilot did not know…
Budget airline Jetstar has been criticised for removing a passenger with an arm birth defect from the emergency exit row on a flight from Ballina to Sydney. James Hall-Thompson was born without a radial bone in his left forearm and…
Two thirds of Australian flight attendants have been sexually harassed on the job, according to a new survey released by the Transport Workers Union. The report found that half of cabin crew were harassed more than four times, and one…
Virgin Australia has been criticised for being sexist and accused of discriminating against men for announcing that it wants to increase its number of female pilots by having an equal number of male and female pilots in its cadetship program.…
