A tribunal has ordered an employer to pay a British scaffolding supervisor on a 457 visa $16,000 for unlawful discrimination over a workplace injury and failing to provide a warning of plans to make him redundant.
Blake Dawson partner Steven Amendola has accused WA Premier Colin Barnett of misrepresenting his report on the State's IR system and says the inference from the Government's handling of the matter is that "they don't know what they're doing" on IR.
Fair Work Australia has reinstated a truck driver and former TWU delegate who was sacked after receiving three warnings for alleged unsafe driving and site safety breaches.
The Federal Magistrates Court has reinstated a postal worker, after finding Australia Post took adverse action against him when it terminated his employment because of his right to access workers’ compensation following a workplace injury and discriminated against him because of the physical disability arising from the injury.
A company director who faces dismissal at a shareholder meeting over claims he allegedly retained, stored and forwarded pornographic materials on the company's IT system, broke personal trading rules by downloading confidential company information and provided material support to a potential competitor has been refused an interlocutory injunction by the NSW Supreme Court to delay the decision.
VCAT has found Nissan Motor Co liable for compensation for the pain and suffering of a senior mechanical engineer with caring responsibilities who had his flexible working hours curtailed when the company restructured and put him on a new employment contract.
