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Live cattle exporter Wellard Ltd has been hit with an unlawful dismissal claim for more than $400,000 by its ex-CEO, who claims he was sacked for asking about the company’s troubling financial position and complaining about the chairman’s “hostile”, “demeaning” and “threatening” behaviour towards him.
From October 1, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will apply an updated cartel immunity and cooperation policy, with the changes said to reflect the ACCC’s experiences from key criminal investigations undertaken to date. The ACCC is also launching an online portal to allow whistleblowers to anonymously report alleged cartel conduct directly to the ACCC. Here, King & Wood Mallesons partner Peta Stevenson and senior associate Jacqueline Ibrahim tells you what you need to know about these significant developments.
A court has ordered James Cook University to pay over $1.2 million to a controversial climate change professor who was sacked in a manner the judge found "reprehensibly unfair" and an "egregious abuse of power".
Norton Rose Fulbright will have to wait another six months before a long-running dispute with a former partner will be heard, after the ex-employee successfully argued it would be “ludicrous” for the trial to proceed.
A judge has thrown out an unlawful dismissal case brought by former HWL Ebsworth special counsel against the firm, describing his arguments as “trivial” and “wholly unrealistic”.
Former Wallabies player Israel Folau has argued that the termination of his $5.7 million contract by a Rugby Australia Tribunal over social media posts in which he made a homphobic slur was an unreasonable restraint of trade.
The third judge assigned to oversee a lawsuit filed against law firm Norton Rose Fulbright by a former partner has refused to recuse himself on the grounds of apprehended bias, despite being accused of behaviour that was “grossly disrespectful”, “absurdly obtuse” and “fundamentally lacking in logic”.
The Transport Workers Union has described the Deliveroo business model as “the biggest sham in the modern economy”, as it launched a new sham contracting case against the food delivery service on the back of its victory against Foodora last year.
CFMEU state boss John Setka has lost his court challenge to a vote to expel him from the Australian Labor Party, with the Victorian Supreme Court ruling it did not have the jurisdiction to rule on the case.
Arguing the pleadings are "evasive or ambiguous", Domino's Pizza has made a bid to strike out the statement of claim filed in a class action alleging franchisees underpaid thousands of workers across Australia for five years.