A recruitment company leader seeking to challenge the restraints in his employment contract and a shareholder agreement has been allowed to continue the case in NSW, after related entities in Great Britain failed to convince the Federal Court to stay the matter because of an exclusive jurisdiction clause.
Early case law in the new unfair termination jurisdiction for transport workers will determine the interpretation of the $175,000 income limit for applicants, according to FWC president Adam Hatcher, who confirmed the Commission had been consulted "in advance" of it being set and pointed out potential pitfalls.
The Australian Industry Group is urging the FWC to take a "cautious approach" to the TWU's employee-like and road transport minimum standards test cases and meaningfully engage with industry to avoid the "mistakes" of past road transport regulatory regimes and seeks to limit the involvement of the Road Transport Advisory Group.
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that a former chief executive's settlement of a dispute over the termination of his employment contract did not end his entitlement to a bonus triggered by the sale of the company.
An account manager who helped to lure 45 clients to a rival has been ordered to pay $500,000 to his former employer, after a judge highlighted the difficulty of gathering evidence in a case in which one of the manager's mobile phones surfaced after being "immersed in water" and another "met with the unhappy fate of being run over by a lawn mower".
Maurice Blackburn's head of employment and industrial law, Josh Bornstein, says he has written a book challenging employers' increasing suppression of free speech to highlight "a major flaw in our democracy" and "a major threat" to workers' rights.
FWC President Adam Hatcher is seeking feedback before diving in to three TWU test cases seeking minimum standards orders for food and parcel delivery gig workers and owner drivers.
The charity defending a High Court case with the potential to extend duty of care to the disciplining and sacking of workers has warned that overturning a 115-year-old precedent would "disturb the allocation of risk" in every current employment contract.
A "wealthy" global sports company's mistaken belief that a sacked manager took unapproved days off has contributed to a judge finding that it should be hit with only 25% of the maximum penalty for taking three months to pay out his annual leave entitlements.
A court has found a low-paid casual hairdresser's two-year restraint on poaching clients "void and unenforceable" because it is "significantly longer" than necessary to protect her former employer's legitimate business interests, taking into account the absence of compensation for the non-compete clause and the nature of client relationships.