A worker who describes herself as a "late starter" is seeking either reinstatement or almost $1 million, claiming the Defence Department dismissed her for numerous prohibited reasons including her age and complaints about being denied flexible working hours.
More than half of private sector clerks included in a survey to inform a possible coronavirus-driven award variation have been working from home since the middle of last year and almost three quarters of employers intend to let them continue doing so at least some of the time.
The High Court has today granted a CFMMEU bid for special leave to appeal a full Federal Court ruling that a building worker engaged by labour hire company Personnel Contracting was an independent contractor.
The High Court has today granted special leave for an employer to challenge a court finding that two truck drivers who worked exclusively for a multinational for almost 40 years had an entitlement to unpaid leave and superannuation entitlements.
The FSU says it might fork out for an electronic ballot for protected action or push for a no vote on the Commonwealth Bank enterprise agreement after failing to achieve a 50% participation rate in an AEC postal ballot that clashed with Christmas, COVID-19 and mail delays.
Deloitte in defending an auditor's age discrimination case admits telling him it expects partners to retire once they turn 62 but claims he has suffered no loss given he has chosen to stay on.
A judge who took exception to a business being liquidated during an underpayment case was entitled to impose heavier penalties on the owners than sought by the FWO, an appeal court has found.
IR Minister Christian Porter is countenancing changes to his Omnibus IR Bill in negotiations with Senate crossbenchers who are objecting to provisions including those permitting the FWC to temporarily approve BOOT-failing enterprise agreements with terms of up to 24 months.
The High Court is set to hear the challenge by academic Peter Ridd to his sacking for breaching his university's code of conduct when he criticised its climate change research.
Dairy cooperative Norco claims it sacked an HR advisor because she told colleagues its board was considering dismissing its new chief executive and warned them they were on his "hit list", rather than in retaliation for her role in probing complaints against him.
