The CFMEU is facing a lawsuit by four units of DP World Australia Group after refusing to accept the terms of four proposed enterprise agreements unless the stevedoring giant guaranteed it would not automate its terminals.
Veteran NRL player agent Sam Ayoub has won his case against his former protege and another employee who left his Ultra Management Sports agency in 2017 and took 18 players with them.
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a general protections dispute brought by an “agoraphobic” beautician after social media posts revealed an active social life including gin, Greek food and the Melbourne Cup.
A last ditch effort to resolve a case brought by a restructuring and insolvency solicitor against Russells Lawyers over his dismissal has failed and the dispute will head to trial this year, more than three years after he was sacked.
A casual worker at Bed Bath N’ Table worked shifts that were sufficiently regular for her to bring an unfair dismissal claim against the homewares retailer, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Online food delivery platform Deliveroo has defended its business model in a wage theft case brought by a former delivery rider, saying he acknowledged he was an independent contractor when he signed up.
A subsidiary of mining giant Glencore has defeated a case brought by the CFMEU claiming it was obligated to pay unlimited amounts of personal leave to sick or injured employees.
Ashurst has become the latest law firm to be ensnared in the underpayments scandal affecting Australian businesses, with the firm admitting to underpaying a number of staff covered under the legal services award.
Struggling mining firm Griffin Coal has been denied access to documents while defending a consumer law case brought by the liquidators of a collapsed mining services firm.
A court has found Australia Post breached the employment contract of a compensation manager dismissed after “likely” threats by the CEPU resulted in the cancellation of a project targeting thousands of injured postal workers.