A law firm has won court backing to have a psychiatrist assess whether its client is legally fit to pursue her attempt to overturn the rejection of her race and s-x discrimination case, held up by a judge as demonstrating "the perils of litigating hurt feelings".
An attempt to warn companies away from the exploding Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme has fallen flat, after an appeal court found that two directors of an ailing business committed no crime by allegedly hoping liquidators would access taxpayer funds to pay out 58 former employees.
A HR manager opportunistically accused a disgruntled employee of leaking confidential information to "put the blow-torch" to him over his dogged pursuit of underpayments, a court has found.
In a judgment that will ripple through a FWC case considering the way homecare, disability and social workers are paid for shifts immediately before or after sleepovers, the Federal Court has rejected FWO arguments that penalty rates should apply.
A full Federal Court has thrown out Serco's appeal against a finding that a senior manager sacked a trainer after he complained about the way she conducted a bullying investigation.
A HR manager's failure to resolve whether an IT specialist engaged as a contractor 20 years ago became an employee when added to the payroll 12 months later has backfired, after a court found he is owed more than $100,000 in leave entitlements.
A chief financial officer who made exaggerated claims to "shoehorn" them into adverse action provisions has failed to establish that his complaints about homophobic jibes and supposedly illegal accounting practices led to his unlawful sacking.
In a significant ruling on calculating academics' payments for time spent marking course work, a Federal Court has found the FWO's compliance notice served on an allegedly underpaying private university "bad at law".
A judge has criticised Aldi for adopting an "unnecessarily technical position" against a self-represented worker but ultimately rejected his bid for a six-month extension to file a general protections claim, after finding he falsified medical evidence.
