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Atanaskovic Hartnell was not hard done by in a judgment that ordered payment of entitlements to a former general manager and rejected its cross-claims against the woman, an appeals court has been told. The law firm was just unhappy with the decision.
Qantas has been found guilty of a safety violation for standing down a worker who raised concerns about unsafe work conditions during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
The judge who awarded more than $320,000 to a former general manager of Atanaskovic Hartnell after finding she endured a "campaign of denigration" by the law firm's founder fundamentally failed to discharge his judicial function, an appeals court has heard.
The Albanese government on Wednesday introduced legislation that would protect sexual harassment claimants from adverse costs orders in litigation, the latest step in its commitment to implementing the recommendations of a landmark report.
The Australian arm of global CEO advisory firm Teneo has rejected claims in a lawsuit by the former head of the company's APAC talent advisory division that it forced her to work unreasonable hours and says it fired her for "serious and wilful" misconduct.
South Australian MP Rebekha Sharkie has asked a court to throw out a "misconceived" lawsuit by a former staffer accusing her of bullying, saying she is not an 'employer' under the Fair Work Act.
The former Indian High Commissioner to Australia has been ordered to pay compensation to a woman who toiled in his Canberra home for less than $10 per day for over a year, with a judge finding he could not avail himself of diplomatic immunity to avoid liability.
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.
Two Catholic school teachers are entitled to pay rises included in new enterprise agreements, despite resigning before they took effect, an appeals court has found.
Construing an “ambiguous” order from the Full Federal Court, a judge has ordered a fresh trial in a trade secrets case that touched on the permissible scope of law firms’ involvement in drafting expert reports.