A court has refused to grant a self-represented on-hire worker a second extension of time to pursue his "confusing" adverse action case, finding too many gaps in his explanation for a 10-week delay during which he badgered the FWC to arbitrate the matter and travelled overseas.
A full Federal Court has overturned orders for a big company to compensate a former employee for a "sham" redundancy, finding a judge wrongly ruled on the necessity of a business restructure.
A judge has lambasted an embassy's failed attempt to strike out sham contracting claims as a "waste of time" and public resources, accusing it of wanting "to keep their immunity cake and to eat it too".
In a significant decision for Australian companies hiring workers overseas, the FWC has allowed an Argentina-based chief operating officer's adverse action case to proceed after finding the employment contract was formed when an email accepting the job offer was opened in Sydney.
An employer has fended off a new employee's adverse action claim after providing evidence of the numerous steps it took to address se-xual harassment and bullying allegations before her abrupt resignation.
The president of a nursing "red union" faces the sack from her hospital job after failing to persuade an appeal court that unauthorised media comments fell under protected industrial activity.
The Federal Court has today ordered the TWU's leader and Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson to attend mediation before former Chief Justice James Allsop over the compensation of about 1700 former ground crew, following the High Court's finding last week that the airline engaged in unlawful adverse action against them.
A court has ordered a worker to pay indemnity costs for her former employer's defence of a general protections claim, after she ignored legal advice and refused six settlement offers reaching up to $40,000, because she considered them "hush money".
The High Court has today unanimously held that Qantas took unlawful adverse action against nearly 2000 former ground crew when it outsourced their jobs at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when their agreements were due to nominally expire.
The Federal Court has found that an aged care home favoured its Filipino workers over a Chinese nurse, and took adverse action against her when it summarily dismissing her because she made complaints about other employees.