The founder of a charity that provides sleeping bags to homeless people has lost her unfair dismissal case after she went “to war” with the non-profit in the Fair Work Commission following a string of fraud charges levelled against her.
RMIT has been hit with a $2.9 million lawsuit by an Indigenous law professor who claims he was fired for complaining about “racially and sexually discriminatory remarks” allegedly made by one of the university’s senior officials.
A former portfolio manager of IOOF has sued the firm for discrimination and breaches of the Fair Work Act, alleging she was groped on the breasts by a high ranking senior executive on her wedding day.
The Fair Work Commission has found a Bank of Queensland manager was unfairly dismissed despite making a “careless” mistake which led to a fraudster nabbing nearly $40,000 of a customer’s money.
Macquarie Bank has been ordered to fork out $330,000 to dozens of former advisers for a “defective and deficient” system which saw the bank fail to pay a raft of employment entitlements.
A former University of Sydney lecturer has appealed a ruling dismissing the lawsuit he brought against the university after he was fired for a seminar slide that imposed the Nazi swastika on the Israeli flag and which was later posed on social media.
While there was no shortage of pain and challenges for law firms as the coronavirus raged across the globe last year, a number of big firms also felt the sting of litigation from disgruntled clients, partners and employees.
Three unions representing Qantas workers have asked the High Court for special leave to appeal a ruling from the Full Federal Court siding with the airline in a dispute over the operation of the JobKeeper wage subsidy.
A former general manager has sued engineering and construction firm John Holland Group alleging he was fired for raising safety concerns about defects in the Canberra Light Rail system.
A Brisbane-based law firm is being sued by a paralegal who claims she was forced to take a 20 per cent pay cut during the COVID-19 pandemic on the basis of misleading statements by the firm’s director.