The Federal Court has this afternoon thrown out the latest challenge to COVID-19 public health orders, observing that whatever else the applicant's case lacked, it did not lack ambition.
A worker's pursuit of bullying claims against his manager played no part in his dismissal for collecting details of colleagues' offers during salary negotiations, a court has found.
A full Federal Court has knocked back a traffic management company's attempt to overturn the FWC's rejection of a proposed non-union deal and has given it a clip around the ears for the way it ran the case.
In what a lawyer believes will result in one of the biggest wage theft penalty orders to date, the Federal Court has found an employer significantly underpaid two cooks, made "cashback" demands to recoup payroll tax and visa costs and used threats to ensure compliance.
Sydney Symphony Orchestra's former chief executive cannot accuse it of sacking her for ordering a sexual harassment probe after initially claiming to be the victim of a politically-driven "hit job", it contends in a defence that declines to say why it did dismiss her.
Amazon has settled a Federal Court action alleging it discriminated against a Sydney warehouse worker by withdrawing an offer of permanent employment once she mentioned she was pregnant.
A Federal Court judge has affirmed the primacy of federal over state laws in determining that NSW workers compensation caps did not shackle the amounts he could award to a long-serving manager whose life was "effectively destroyed" by a new chief executive.
A former Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills partner is suing the advisory firm for $13 million after claiming that it constructively dismissed him for questioning major client Lendlease's "aggressive" approach to tax on several projects.
It would be "most logical" for Labor if it takes power on May 21 to create a Fair Work court to sit alongside the FWC and deal with wage theft, discrimination and more, according to an employment law and IR academic who says this might also enable it to "rebalance" appointments.
