A Melbourne council has been ordered to pay a wheelchair-bound man $5,000 compensation for disability discrimination. A tribunal found the council discriminated against him based on his disability during a meeting in 2017. Philip Barnes, who has multiple sclerosis, claimed…
The federal government’s school chaplaincy program that discriminates against secular counsellors is set to be legally challenged. It's a test case of state anti-discrimination laws, in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Discriminatory school chaplaincy program designed to promote religion…
A real estate agent claims sexual harassment from her colleagues and boss, who allegedly sent her porn. The agent has filed a claim in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. She alleges the company breached the Equal Opportunity, Sex Discrimination…
'Faggots shouldn't be alive' is what one boss told a worker in a case of horrific sexual harassment and discrimination. The worker says his boss targeted him because he is gay, and made work "a living hell". Furthermore, when he…
A tribunal has ruled that severe morning sickness is a disability, and therefore those affected are protected by anti-discrimination laws. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal made the ruling in a case involving a pregnant phone shop worker. Tribunal rules…
