Seven Network has told a court 13 women have come forward with complaints about television reporter Robert Ovadia since his dismissal in June.
A former employee of the Australian Taxation Office who faced murder charges over a cold case from 1984, which have since been dropped, has lost his unfair dismissal case after the FWC found he was not forced to resign.
A court has imposed an interim injunction on a former Samsung Electronics business manager, restraining him from taking a similar role with rival Electrolux until a case alleging breach of post-employment restraints is heard.
A group of DP World workers previously found to have been “blindsided” by their dismissal for refusing a mandatory COVID-19 jab have failed in a bid to appeal a decision that found their reinstatement inappropriate.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been sued by an employee who alleges the accounting firm is vicariously liable for an alleged sexual assault by a co-worker after an end-of-financial-year work party.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia and subsidiary CommSec have been hit with $10.34 million in penalties — the highest ever imposed in enforcement action by the workplace regulator — after admitting it underpaid thousands of employees more than $16 million.
The owner of a small jewellery retailer in central Sydney must pay a younger female employee $237,985 for sexual harassment after he slapped her on the buttocks and confessed romantic feelings for her, a judge has found.
A judge has dismissed a suit by a former executive producer at Network Ten who claimed she was owed nearly $400,000 in severance pay under an industry award, finding the award did not apply to senior management.
On the first day of trial in parallel class actions and regulatory proceedings, the Fair Work Ombudsman panned the payment systems adopted by Woolworths and Coles for salaried managers, saying they were “entirely foreign” to the industrial award and that the supermarket giants had “no meaningful proper records” for overtime.
The National Australia Bank has flagged a potential strike-out bid against a landmark case by the Finance Sector Union alleging bank managers were required to work unreasonable unpaid hours for years.