A multinational law firm has failed in its bid to have a former manager's sex discrimination claim struck out, a court instead granting her permission to replead her "significantly flawed" application.
A court has thrown out an injured automotive manager's attempt to establish that his employer took unlawful adverse action against him when it bullied him and allocated part of his job to another employee because of his physical disability and lodgement of a worker's compensation claim.
CFMMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka might take his legal action to block his expulsion from the ALP to the High Court, the Victorian Supreme Court has heard today.
A $190 million in-principle settlement of the long-running Queensland "stolen wages" class action in the Federal Court has increased the chances of similar claims succeeding in other states.
The first new agreement for Big W employees in seven years has been sidelined, after unregistered retail union RAFFWU opposed its approval in an FWC telephone hearing today.
A vehicle technician who claims he was subjected to discrimination when called "gay" and a "wog" in the workplace has won access to text messages sent to a proposed comparator to help him build his case.
The FWC has rejected a service manager's attempt to establish that his dismissal did not constitute a genuine redundancy, finding the employer was under no obligation to address its business efficiency issues when it put him off.
In the age of ubiquitous mobile phones, covert recordings of meetings by employees don't necessarily irreversibly damage trust and confidence in the employment relationship, a UK IR tribunal has ruled.
