Kathy Jackson's lawyer has succeeded in staving off the HSU's bid for a $700,000 summary judgment against her for now, with the Federal Court ordering him to provide more medical evidence of her condition.
The WA Supreme Court has refused to reveal the identity of a Thiess employee who reported to the Wheatstone Project manager that a female Bechtel employee was inviting colleagues to look at her breasts, ruling that it would undermine the effectiveness of Bechtel's "carefully considered, thorough" workplace harassment policies.
A hotel management company that took unlawful adverse action when it stopped giving shifts to a casual bartender who complained of being underpaid has been ordered to pay $11,000 compensation, including a sum for distress, hurt, and humiliation.
The MUA has given notice of five consecutive 24-hour stoppages at the Dampier supply base operated by Mermaid Marine Australia, starting from Wednesday.
A Fair Work Commissioner has refused to disqualify himself from an unfair dismissal hearing on apprehended bias grounds, rejecting a solicitor's assertion that his warning about costs orders signalled he had "negatively assessed" a sacked employee's claim.
The ACTU says unions will restart their campaign against James Hardie if it fails to top-up the compensation scheme for sufferers of asbestos-related diseases.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected a protected action ballot application by a union seeking to regulate the use of labour hire, after noting conflicting full bench authorities on what constitutes a "reasonable belief" that a claim contains permitted matters only.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected a second attempt by electricity distributor Essential Energy to move some managers and senior technical employees from an enterprise agreement to individual contracts, ruling that the "common understanding" of the agreement's coverage clause overrides its literal meaning.
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service has agreed to temporarily refrain from disciplining an union delegate it threatened with dismissal after she emailed an update about enterprise bargaining negotiations to employees.
The Federal Circuit Court has rejected a costs claim by a company that twice offered an employee money to settle an adverse action case she went on to lose.
