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A court has heard that a director at office leasing company Cushman & Wakefield who accepted a job with a competitor could lose a $1.3 million sign-on bonus if the case by her former employer is not promptly resolved.
A judge has rejected a Federal Circuit and Family Court judge's decision to transfer a PhD student's Fair Work lawsuit against the University of Western Australia to the Federal Court because his court does not have the proper resources to consider it.
The applicant in an underpayments class action against telecommunications contractor Tandem -- which has been stayed since the company entered administration -- has asked a court to abandon the case.
The judge overseeing a sex discrimination and harassment lawsuit by the only female partner at global technology research company Information Services Group has lashed out at the parties for proposing to call a parade of 16 witnesses and estimating the trial would take three weeks.
Mining services company Thiess has settled a class action by fly-in fly-out workers who alleged they were not paid for time spent on the bus travelling home from a Pilbara-based liquefied natural gas processing plant owned by Woodside Energy.
Baby food producer Bellamy’s has hit back at a $400,000 lawsuit by its former chief executive officer, saying she was sacked because of “poor financial performance” and not because she complained about sex discrimination.
The legal industry has praised the historic appointment of Debra Mortimer as the first female Chief Justice of the Federal Court, noting her modern approach to managing cases and compassionate nature.
Gender pay gap data for approximately 40 per cent of the Australian workforce will soon be made public under reforms that passed into law on Thursday.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra's former boss Emma Dunch has discontinued her unfair dismissal case in which she claimed she was terminated for investigating multiple claims of sexual harassment by musicians.
A judge overseeing a $129 million underpayments class action against hospitality giant Merivale has rejected a bid for a second round of opt out notices, finding that even if the first round went straight to employees’ junk or spam folders, it did not follow that they had not been read.