An IT specialist who claims he was was “heavily medicated” when settling Fair Work Commission claims has lost a bid to amend his pleadings in a workplace injury and negligence case that has ensnared law firms Harmers Workplace Lawyers and Firths.
A judge has dismissed claims brought by a former One Nation staffer against the federal government accusing it of being liable for former senator Brian Burston’s alleged sexual harassment, finding that the terms of her unfair dismissal settlement barred her from bringing sexual harassment allegations againt the Commonwealth.
A former One Nation staffer who accused former senator Brian Burston of harassment has told a court that Burston tried to get her to breach a settlement agreement reached after she brought an unfair dismissal claim by leaking details to the media.
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.
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.
A make-up artist has launched a Fair Work case against the ABC alleging she lost her shifts after refusing to wear a mask in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A court has ruled that an arbitration proceeding before the Fair Work Commission does not doom a Federal Court lawsuit brought by the civilian air traffic controllers union against government-owned Airservices.
A former general manager suing law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell has amended her pleadings as trial in her case resumes Friday, expanding her claims and including details of an email in which the firm’s managing partner allegedly slammed her practice of billing clients on a “menstrual based cycle”.
A landmark judgment by the Full Federal Court has found that a full bench of the Fair Work Commission “misconstrued” its own authority to make general protections findings about the dismissal of employees.
Woolworths has agreed to fast-track retail employee pay increases after a union hit the supermarket giant with a lawsuit this week.