A full Federal Court has expressed "regret" in ordering the retrial of five-year-old claims by the Queensland Nurses' Union that Red Cross dismissed one of its members for participating in protected industrial action.
Representative rugby player Israel Folau will not be proceeding with his unlawful dismissal claim against Rugby Australia and the NSW Waratahs under the Fair Work Act, after the parties settled the matter today.
In a judgment further inhibiting IR class actions reliant on litigation funders, the High Court has quashed two decisions that affirmed the ability of courts to make "common fund orders" to assure potential funders of a sufficient return on investment.
The Morrison Government has this morning introduced to Parliament the version of the "ensuring integrity" legislation dramatically voted down by the Senate last week.
A tribunal has held that a commander discriminated against officers he described as a "close knit friendship group of homos-xual like-minded" police in a complaint of possible drug use, while clearing the NSW Police Force of any discrimination in its handling of the allegations.
The defence filed by Domino's Pizza in a big underpayment class action cites past compliance work done on the fast food giant by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
A casual Coles employee who worked his last shift in 2014 due to injury has been given the all-clear to pursue a general protections claim after an FWC full bench found he lodged his application within 21 days of his effective dismissal four years later.
The FWC has found that a multinational employer did not dismiss a seconded consultant who has refused to return to his Indian base, ruling that permanent residency does not entitle him to continuing employment in Australia.
Mining giant Glencore failed to pay the full amount of untaken long service leave to a redundant management employee because it miscalculated his base pay, the Federal Court has found.
