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No happy medium after FWC time limit ruling

A sacked worker was not so incapacitated by purported mental health problems that she could not continue to offer "medium and psychic services", the FWC has held in refusing to extend time for her general protections claim.

Worker brings employer to book for pay secrecy "sacking"

In an early test of Secure Jobs changes that outlaw pay secrecy mandates, a former casual sales assistant at a landmark Melbourne bookshop has begun legal action in the Federal Circuit Court, alleging it no longer offered her shifts after she disclosed a pay rise and backpay to her fellow workers.

Law firm loses appeal against $185K ruling

A law firm has failed to overturn the "bulk" of a court decision to award a junior solicitor more than $185,000 in compensation and penalties after his sacking for making almost 250 complaints.



"Disturbing lack of candour" in pilot's anti-vax case: Judge

A Federal Court judge has noted a pilot's "disturbing lack of candour" in whittling back the challenge of eight former Virgin and Jetstar employees to their dismissals for failing to comply with COVID-19 vaccination policies.

Court tosses out "warring" brothers' adverse action case

A judge has rejected a business owner's claim of unlawful sacking because he repeatedly accused his co-owner brother of bullying and conflicts of interest, finding their "poisonous" relationship unrelated to his dismissal for ignoring a direction to stay away from the office while under investigation for allegedly harassing employees.

Costs against manager accused of earning "secret profits"

The former contracts manager of an ASX-listed mining company has been ordered to pay half his former employer's costs in defending an appeal against a judge's decision to strike out most of a general protections claim filed as the company pursues him for allegedly earning "secret profits".

Academic's 'cancel culture' win on hold

A Sydney University lecturer sacked for superimposing a swastika on a posted image of an Israeli flag has nominally won his job back, pending the result of the institution's appeal against a finding that his 2019 dismissal breached its agreement's intellectual freedom clause.