The Federal Court has rejected a major external service provider's bid for costs stemming from a failed adverse action and breach of contract claim, in a ruling that canvasses the "commonplace" difficulties parties can face when preparing for trial.
7-Eleven will settle all underpayment claims and won’t apply any time limits, in the wake of allegations that franchisees systematically exploited employees, company chair Russell Withers has told a Senate inquiry.
A real estate agency's last-minute implementation of a new anti-bullying policy wasn't enough to stop the FWC from ordering it to cease bullying a property consultant that its sales administrator deleted as a Facebook friend after likening her to a "naughty little schoolgirl running to the teacher".
A legally-qualified former lecturer who claims she was psychologically-injured by alleged sex and pregnancy discrimination at a sandstone university has failed in a bid to join four academics as respondents to her case.
The Heydon Royal Commission has decided not to recall former HSU national secretary Kathy Jackson as a witness before it delivers its final report at the end of the year.
Public servants employed by 10 of the largest APS agencies will walk off the job tomorrow to protest what the CPSU says is the federal government's "strategic" hard-line approach to bargaining.
Festering tensions within the Queensland branch of the CFMEU's construction and general division have been exposed by a secret recording from July this year that has been released by the Heydon Royal Commission.
The SA Government has reached a "no strike" agreement with three unions to ensure industrial action is not an obstacle to building new submarines in Adelaide for the Australian Navy.
A full bench of the federal court has confirmed that terms in modern awards that provide allowances for hardships experienced by employees working in certain remote locations are not extinguished by the Fair Work Act.
