Labor has promised to introduce tougher penalties for workplace deaths resulting from breaches of work safety obligations if it wins the March State election in New South Wales.
A court has ruled that a client of IR advisor Employsure was not required to pay out the balance of its $18,000, five-year contract when it quit after eight months.
Former NUW NSW branch secretary Derrick Belan has been sentenced to four years' jail on 60 charges that involved more than $650,000 of union funds, including personal spending on a tattoo, Botox treatments, holidays and a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
A prison officer effectively sacked twice after pleading guilty to assaulting three inmates has again won his job back, an appeal court finding that the IR commissioner who originally reinstated him had correctly focused on what is fair and just, rather than "the reputation of the government".
The NSW Supreme Court has rejected an employer's interlocutory bid to remove material it claims is confidential from the file for a general protections case in the FWC.
A tribunal has ruled that when a public health organisation suspended a psychiatrist, it was not retaliation for his "constant" complaints, but its chief executive acting on a recommendation to stand him down while it investigated allegations of threatening behaviour towards his colleagues.
The NSW Supreme Court has refused to grant an interlocutory injunction against a former SAI Global executive who had sought to set up shop at rival online conveyancing and property settlement provider InfoTrack and its subsidiary Perfect Portal.
As thousands of NSW rail workers prepare to ban overtime from next Thursday amid an extended bargaining dispute, the FWC has thrown out an interlocutory bid to force employers and Treasury to reveal plans for future restructures or staff reductions plus any gains from productivity measures.
NSW Health has been failing for decades to count toward long service leave the continuing casual service of employees who converted to permanent employment, the State's Supreme Court ruled today.
