A judge weighing the pros and cons of conducting an adverse action trial via Microsoft Teams has decided to delay it until he can assess witness credibility in person, in a courtroom providing its "own chemistry and theatre".
The self-described former general manager of a "car solutions" company has failed at his third attempt to persuade a court that he was an employee rather than a contractor, a judge observing that it nowadays takes little more than a laptop to conduct a "modest" business within a business.
In a significant ruling on academic free speech, a university lecturer has been given a second chance to challenge his sacking for superimposing a swastika on an Israeli flag after a full Federal Court found insufficient weight had been attached to an agreement's 'intellectual freedom' clause.
A general manager who claims he was retrenched after assisting enterprise agreement negotiations while on secondment accuses offshore services company Smit Lamnalco of shortchanging him $84,000 by ditching a loyalty bonus scheme without telling him.
The Federal Court has today declared that its ruling last month in favour of a TWU adverse action claim against Qantas over the outsourcing of ground handling at 10 ports applies to all employees, not just union members.
A pistol club manager who claims its directors promised to house her in an onsite motor home "for life" is accusing them of underpaying her for more than a decade and threatening to sack and evict her when she sought her full entitlements.
WA's peak employer body is being sued by its commercial services director, who among other charges claims that its chief executive queried whether her family obligations meant the employer organisation "may not be the place for her".
An academic's $2 million adverse action case against a university's HR department has been transferred to the Federal Court, a judge observing that its outcome has "significant" implications for the tertiary sector's ability to scrap tenured positions funded by endowments.
A digital marketer has been cleared to pursue her adverse action claim after the FWC dismissed an employer's contention that her billed hours exceeded those reasonably expected of a "millennial with quick reflexes".
A full Federal Court has quashed a software company's $5.2 million general protections payout and ordered a retrial after finding that the judge in awarding record compensation to the former Victorian state manager failed to provide adequate reasons in his 350-page decision.
