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The former chief executive officer of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency has won her case alleging she was unfairly dismissed after complaining about the CFO, with a judge finding there was "extreme" unfairness in the decision to terminate.
A wife employed by her barrister husband can seek compensation for unpaid wages because the claim is based on their employment relationship not their marital relationship, a court has held.
Supermarket giant Woolworths has denied the Fair Work Ombudsman is entitled to seek compensation for its underpayment of staff, saying its $330 million remediation to affected employees fully answers the regulator's case.
A Melbourne law firm and its director have been ordered to pay over $184,000 to a former junior lawyer who earned hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, after a court found he was underpaid and fired for filing a barrage of complaints.
A scientist alleging she was fired from the CSIRO for filing sex discrimination and sexual harassment complaints has had the majority of her lawsuit against the government body dismissed, with the court finding she fabricated evidence and that an incident in which she was slapped on the backside with a riding crop by her supervisor and told to "get back to work" did not amount to sexual harassment.