A full Federal Court has dismissed regional airline Rex's attempts to challenge a pilots' union's standing to pursue an adverse action claim for non-members, concluding it is entitled to represent the industrial interests of eligible non-members.
The Federal Court has today fined a Melbourne painting & decorating firm and its director almost $20,000 for texting workers and telling them they must be members of the CFMEU before starting on-site work.
The Victorian Supreme Court took the "serious step" of imposing a representative order on individuals involved in an unlawful blockade at a Geelong oil refinery early this month, but extending it to encompass future participants would go beyond the terms of any previous such order, according to the judge in the case.
A mining company cannot rely on secret footage obtained of an employee making "adverse" and "colourful" remarks about it as part of its subsequent disciplinary investigation, the Federal Court has ruled.
In a decision that canvasses how much assistance the FWC should provide to unrepresented parties, a full Federal Court has found an employer was not denied procedural fairness when the FWC dismissed an appeal notice that was more "diatribe" than pleading and didn't tell the employer to fix it.
Restraint of trade clauses preventing a chief financial officer from jumping ship and working at a rival fashion retailer were broader than what was reasonable to protect the employer's legitimate interests, a court has found.
An employee required to split her shifts between two Victorian medical clinics more than 20kms apart was entitled to claim car allowance for her travel, a full Federal Court has found.
The Queensland Supreme Court has ruled that Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd can recover up to $300,000 paid to an escort by a senior manager who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $20 million.
