A senior insurance executive lost more than $300,000 when she took up a general manager's position with a competitor at a lower base salary on the basis of a misleading and deceptive inducement that a profit-share arrangement would boost her future earnings, the Federal Court has found.
Brumbies rugby union team chief executive Michael Jones has resigned a week after the ACT Supreme Court extended an injunction under whistleblower laws that stopped the club from dismissing him over public interest disclosures.
FWC's interest-based dispute resolution approach reaches new stage; Shorten Government would intervene in penalties case; Visa cases now the lion's share of FWO prosecutions; Budget Estimates hearings brought forward; Labor bid to disallow regulation postponed to Wednesday; and Slaters wins new finance deal.
Two CFMEU officials, including one posing as croc-hunter Steve Irwin during a construction site visit, are no longer personally liable for $47,000 in fines, after a full Federal Court found the FWBC "pursued" them "under an inappropriate statutory regime".
A Coles Supermarkets employee who is seeking to overturn the approval of the retailer's enterprise agreement told a full bench in Melbourne this week that letting the agreement stand would amount to saying, "we've got it wrong, but let us get away with it".
The FWC has granted a CPSU bid to maintain coverage of about 500 office-based NSW Government Home Care employees transferred to a private disability and aged care service, after finding neither the ASU nor the HSU could more effectively represent them.
An FWC full bench has thrown out a senior employee's unfair dismissal claim, ruling his life insurance premium, paid by his employer, counted towards his annual income and pushed his earnings beyond the high-income threshold.
