A judge has overlooked a lawyer's "deplorable" heckling from the bar table in awarding costs against an "experienced litigator" and his firm for persisting with a stay application that unreasonably extended a solicitor's dismissal challenge.
The first test case for the delegates' rights provisions legislated by the Albanese Government is set to be heard in the Federal Court in Brisbane next week.
A FWC full bench has made it clear that correctly identifying an employer is not a "jurisdictional precondition" when pursuing a general protections dismissal dispute.
A project manager who argued that putting a Ferrari badge on a Toyota "doesn't make it a Ferrari" can pursue an adverse action case after the FWC found his employer labelled him an independent contractor merely to facilitate his request for his pay to go into a trust account.
The FWC has rejected a manager's general protections dismissal dispute claim after finding that she waited too long to withdraw a resignation supposedly given "in a state of distress" and holding that the employer's knowledge of her tendency "to make 'emotional' decisions" had no relevance.
A 20-seconds late FWC lodgement has been fatal for a worker who claimed her employer discriminated against her when it dismissed her for refusing to undergo an independent medical examination after she disclosed her neurodiversity.
A judge has fired a shot across the bow of litigants relying on "sycophantic" AI to run their cases, observing that a delivery driver alleging adverse action came "perilously close" to being held in contempt after failing to produce evidence found to be either mischaracterised or non-existent.
An insolvent NT "space base" has been ordered to pay $2.3 million to its former chief executive, ousted shortly before NASA launched three commercial rockets from its Cape York site.
A Federal Court judge has awarded costs against retailer H&M after expressing bemusement at its reasons for seeking to suppress seemingly "anodyne" details of an adverse action case brought by its former Australia/NZ HR leader.
In the first fully contested Federal Court case to consider new s-xual harassment protections in the Fair Work Act, a judge has relied heavily on a FIFO apprentice's dinnertime revelation to her parents that her supervisor asked her for a "bl-w job" to find he s-xually harassed her.
