Justin Hemmes' Merivale has agreed to a $18 million settlement of an underpayments class action that Adero Law once valued at up to $150 million, with more than $8.6 million to go towards fees and commissions and the rest potentially split between about 14,000 group members.
Qantas wants to pay "significantly reduced" compensation to about 1700 ground crew whose jobs it unlawfully outsourced at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Court has heard.
Strict non-disclosure clauses remain the default option for s-xual harassment settlements, a year after the publication of Respect@Work Council guidelines for their use, according to a new report that nevertheless outlines model NDA terms.
The ACTU is urging the FWC to include in a model delegates' rights clause an entitlement to ask non-members to join their union and to advocate on their behalf, along with a prohibition on employers dealing directly with workers they are representing in some circumstances.
The ACTU and Minerals Council have won permission to intervene in what a FWC full bench describes as a "significant test" of Labor's multi-employer bargaining laws.
A court has today fined a Qantas subsidiary $250,000 for deliberately discriminating against a health and safety representative who told workers to stop cleaning planes from China during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An employer has failed to win costs against a former sales representative who rejected five increasing settlement offers before losing her adverse action case, a judge observing that there was "nothing especially alluring" about any of the offers.
The FWC has awarded compensation to an accounts assistant who said she could not return to the office after working from home for almost a decade, while her employer maintained that the arrangement only began with the pandemic.
The FWC has extended time for a TAFE worker to challenge his sacking after accepting that he might have misinterpreted the employer's "wrongheaded" language and taken it to mean it took effect on the date it announced the result of a review of its decision.
The FWC is inviting final comment on proposed variations to 147 awards to reflect the elevation of superannuation to a guaranteed NES right under last year's Protecting Worker Entitlements legislation.