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Employer avoids big fine for misclassifying worker

An employer that underpaid an IT specialist it treated as a contractor for 14 years should have addressed the "uncertainty" involved, but its misdeeds nevertheless fell at "the lower end of the seriousness spectrum", a court has found in a penalty ruling.

"Lawyer" gets second referral to regulator

An underpaying café owner who claims to hold a law degree has for the second time run afoul of a court during proceedings involving the FWO, with a judge deciding to again refer her to a legal profession regulator after finding it "difficult to reconcile" her supposed qualifications with the tenor of her oral and written submissions.

Underpayment ruling highlights unwieldy awards: Stewart

The implications of the Federal Court's retail underpayments decision are only starting to be understood, with employment law academic Andrew Stewart warning of the significent consequences of its redefinition of employer record-keeping obligations and findings on proving workers' agreement to vary award conditions.

Appeal bench makes crucial ruling on franchisor liability

The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.

Kick-off for first anti-bully & harass regime with damages

NSW public sector workers will be able to seek orders and damages to halt bullying and sexual harassment at work from today.

ABC fine a warning against caving to cancel culture

Senior ABC managers failed to consult in-house IR and legal experts and "blithely ignored" risks when the organisation "capitulated" to critics and sacked presenter Antoinette Lattouf over her political views on the Gaza war, which warranted a substantial penalty to deter a recurrence, Federal Court judge Darryl Rangiah found today.

Court orders ABC to pay $150,000 penalty to Lattouf

The Federal Court has today ordered the ABC to pay former presenter Antoinette Lattouf a fine of $150,000 for unlawfully sacking her for reasons including her political opinion opposing the Gaza war and breaching its enterprise agreement.

Qantas case shows "fundamentally broken" IR system: Expert

A labour law academic says there is a need to ask how Australia's IR system is so "fundamentally broken" that it incentivises the conduct evident in Qantas's decision to unlawfully outsource jobs to avoid bargaining, in circumstances where the record $90 million fine imposed yesterday will barely dent its resultant annual savings.

Newsflash: Qantas to pay $90 million penalty

The Federal Court has today ordered Qantas to pay a $90 million fine - including $50 million to the TWU - for the Flying Kangaroo's unlawful outsourcing of the jobs of about 1800 ground handling employees, while it has criticised chief executive Vanessa Hudson for failing to appear to explain the airline's contrition.

No secondary line of defence in sacking process: Court

A judge has slapped an $8000 penalty on a major Commonwealth department after expressing astonishment that it does not have a "human or technological" system in place to ensure it pays dismissed employees their correct entitlements.

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