Failed online lodgement an exceptional circumstance; Police whistleblower fails to suppress identity in dismissal case; No compensation for worker who misused fuel card; and Truck driver's conduct amounted to resignation.
A Queensland parliamentary inquiry will consider licensing and registration of labour hire companies as the state becomes the third jurisdiction to launch investigations into allegations of sham contracting and abuses of visa workers by labour suppliers.
A HR manager has been fined more than $1,000 by the Federal Circuit Court for the part she played in her employer's provision of insufficient notice when dismissing an injured employee.
An employer's decision not to make permanent a driver with Asperger's even though he passed a comprehensive physical and functional assessment was "unfair and irrational" but did not breach anti-discrimination laws, a tribunal has ruled.
An accountant, who agreed to sell his practice and its services over a four-year period will continue to be restricted from practising, after an appeal court rejected his argument that restraints of trade no longer applied.
The SA Government has reached a "no strike" agreement with three unions to ensure industrial action is not an obstacle to building new submarines in Adelaide for the Australian Navy.
An exemption to permit South Australia's courts to engage women-only in a "positive discrimination" program is being touted as an important step to address a substantial gender imbalance spotlighted a year ago by a Law Council study.
A SA Supreme Court full bench has ruled that an employer must pay long service leave to a casual dockhand who worked sporadically for more than 20 years at Port Lincoln Harbour but has also recommended that state parliament urgently fix legislation that reduced his entitlement to almost nothing.
A production manager who "perpetrated a fraud on his employer of a most egregious kind" is facing a compensation bill of more than $1m, including a rare award of exemplary damages, following a court ruling.
A Supreme Court appeal bench has upheld a ruling that a local council's chief executive was not covered by an award and was therefore entitled to 12 months' notice of dismissal.
