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High Court rebuffs academic pay challenge; "No guarantee" lawyers will respond before deadline, says FWC; ABC presenter free to contest sacking; and Bench rejects consolidation order appeal.
FWC to make rare costs order after drug dealing admission; Sacking over flight delay unfair; Text message proves worker resigned; and FIFO worker dismissed when employer stopped paying for flights.
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.
