Union wins disability discrimination case at the Equal Opportunity Commission

By Carmel Shute. Swinburne University of Technology today agreed to settle a discrimination claim made to the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission by Joanne Waldron, an administrator employed by Swinburne University of Technology to provide assistance to post-graduate students.  The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), which represented Ms Waldron, said that Swinburne senior management had finally agreed to honour previous undertakings to relocate Ms Waldron to its Croydon campus following the closure of its Lilydale campus. Ms Waldron has a medical condition which significantly limited her capacity to travel long distances and was made redundant despite her strong desire to continue working for the university. More...