Two employees have been found personally liable to pay damages to a former client who suffered as a result of their professional advice, in a High Court ruling that challenges previous notions of the sole or vicarious responsibility of employers for workers' actions.
In an important private dispute resolution ruling that might provide an alternative channel to challenge unfair dismissals under Work Choices, the AIRC has reinstated three employees made redundant by Telstra. It found that flaws in the structure of the telco's HR management mean it is unable to comply with obligations to consult employees and their union about restructuring plans.
Cleaning contractor Consolidated Property Services (Australia) today sought innovative court injunctions to stop the LHMU from making public statements about the company's hygiene standards as part of its industrial campaign for cleaners.
A senior court official who was sacked last year over allegations of sexual harassment has won a conditional reinstatement order after the NSW IRC found his dismissal was too harsh.
Qantas has been ordered to pay a former licensed aircraft mechanical engineer $71,692 after the Federal Magistrates Court accepted that discriminatory remarks made to him at work contributed to his depressive illness.
St George has begun offering its 8,500 employees interest-free loans of up to $4,000 to purchase ecologically sustainable infrastructure such as rainwater tanks for their home and boosted its paid parental leave from eight weeks to thirteen weeks, in a policy change announced today.
An employee sacked for having pornographic material on his computer at work has won a new hearing of his unfair dismissal application, in a full bench ruling on the principles for determining whether a termination is harsh, unjust or unreasonable.
Some of the amendments to the Workplace Relations Act passed by Parliament this week - and likely to receive Royal Assent next week - could cause substantial practical difficulties for employers with pre-reform agreements, according to Flinders University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart.
Executive employment contracts containing detailed definitions of misbehavour justifying dismissal don't override the common law notion of misconduct, a Supreme Court Judge has ruled in the highly publicised case of former Primelife chief executive Ted Sent.
It is possible that the Office of the Employee Advocate deliberately restricted leave to all of its employees on the ACTU's day of action against Work Choices so it could stop CPSU members from attending the protests, a Federal Court full bench has found.
