Workplace Law

Running head: WORKPLACE LAW
Workplace Law
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Table of Contents
Issue 1.............................................................................................................................2
Issue............................................................................................................................2
Relevant Law.............................................................................................................2
Application.................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................5
Issue 2.............................................................................................................................5
Issue............................................................................................................................5
Relevant Law.............................................................................................................5
Application.................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................9

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Issue 1
Issue
Whether a successful claim could be brought by Isobel against her employer for she
accused him of unfair dismissal?
Relevant Law
Discrimination means either offering favour to a person or taking adverse actions
against a person without any reasonable justification. Anti-discrimination laws have been
passed in this regard, in order to protect people who are being discriminated, especially at
workplace (Parliament.vic.gov.au 2019). The essential factors that are considered by the
court while giving orders against discrimination are:
a) The person so discriminated was asked to obey certain standards by the person or authority
effecting such discrimination,
b) A proportion of people could while some could not comply with such standard or
requirement,
c) Such standard is not considered to be just, fair and reasonable, and
d) The particular person in question could not comply with the required standard.
In the landmark case of Australian iron and steel Pty Ltd v Banovic (1989) 168 CLR 165, it
was observed that the women workers who were employed recently of the workplace were
suffering certain issues due to unreasonable retrenchment policy while the men who were
working there for a long time did not face any such issues. This was factor was raised as a
discrimination against the women workers at the workplace.
In the case of B. Rose v Telstra Corporation Limited [1998] AIRC 1592, The
Industrial relations Commission of Australia is currently reputed as Fair Work Commission
considers that the employer has the right of dismissing ay employee if he or she was found to