A law firm has launched the first major underpayment class action against a private Australian university, it claims, over the alleged short-changing of casual academics.
The FWC has found that an engineer's "extremely insulting" WhatsApp messages about his manager, sent to colleagues on a day off, warranted his summary sacking, while nevertheless awarding him $14,000 compensation because the employer denied him a chance to explain.
A Federal Court judge has declined to recuse herself from hearing the parallel cases of a former aircraft engineer on the basis that she is a member of Qantas's Chairman's Lounge.
Uber's business model has withstood scrutiny in the first test under the Fair Work Act's new unfair contracts provisions to probe its use of the same "cab rank principle" that applies to barristers.
A judge has suppressed details of a criminal defence lawyer's adverse action case against the firm that recently represented alleged Bondi gunman Naveed Akram, noting that any efforts at mediation would be "imperilled" by the airing of "sensitive" allegations and medical reports.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a senior academic sacked for s-xual harassment, noting that while his "creepy" conduct breached the university's Appropriate Workplace Behaviour policy, he had apologised to the employee and had no further contact with her after HR intervened three years before his dismissal.
A FWC full bench has rebuffed an employer's challenge to a same-job, same-pay ruling, in its first full bench consideration of the interaction between SJSP legislation and transfer of business provisions.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an unfairly sacked WesTrac specialist who altered a leave claim to secure payment for public holidays during the Stokes family-controlled company's end-of-year shutdown period.
A full Federal Court has found Metro Trains Melbourne discharged its reverse onus in an adverse action case despite its failure to call a workplace relations head and practising lawyer it approached for "IR advice" in the lead-up to a senior manager's sacking.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a porter after an alleged workplace s-xual assault, despite slamming "unreliable and inconsistent" evidence from its HR manager.
