A court has ordered a former HR/OHS coordinator to pay $35,000 in costs after he unreasonably refused substantial offers to resolve an adverse action case against his employer and four managers and made what was "at worst" an extortionate attempt to increase its settlement offer.
Another chance for six-years-late general protections claim; WA launches wage theft inquiry; Class action might be looming against Merivale; Seyfarth makes first partner promotion since 2013 Australian start-up; and Full court rejects Nick Belan's challenges to dismissal.
The Federal Circuit Court has fined a former 7-Eleven operator more than $154,000 for using a cash-back scheme to circumvent a biometric payroll system introduced by head office to stamp out underpayments.
The Federal Court will next month convene a hearing for an ACCC prosecution of employment advice provider Employsure for allegedly misleading small business operators into believing it was the FWO or the FWC or was connected to them.
Telstra has defended a 1.5% a year pay offer, expressing disappointment as CEPU members vote on whether to take industrial action that includes bans on emergency work and essential customer servicing and an "unlimited number" of stop-works of "indefinite duration".
Thousands of retail and hospitality workers sitting on lower-paying "zombie" deals will revert to their respective awards from early March after the FWC terminated a 2007 agreement for Justin Hemmes' Merivale hospitality company and a 2011 Specialty Fashion Group deal.
The FWC earlier this month halted industrial action at BP's Kwinana oil refinery after it accepted that a shutdown of up to a fortnight would be the "unavoidable and inevitable consequence" of protected bans and limitations by AWU members.
The owner of a Sydney martial arts gym will have another chance to defend his dismissal of an instructor after an FWC bench found a member wrongly rejected damning CCTV footage that had been obtained illegally.
Queensland employers will have to pay a substantially higher base salary for newly-hired HR and IR managers, according to a remuneration survey released today.
An FWC full bench has issued guidance for the approval of enterprise agreements containing minor errors, finding that employers can give as little as four days' notice of voting and alter the text on template forms as long as workers are not disadvantaged.
