Two Super Retail Group executives’ claims that they were unfairly sacked for making whistleblower complaints will go to trial after they lost their bid to enforce an alleged settlement.
Senior counsel for two former Super Retail executives has withdrawn on the final day of a hearing in the case, saying it was against his conscience to continue acting.
Super Retail has rejected as “fanciful” a claim by two former executives that they reached a binding oral settlement with their employer after their dismissal in May.
A judge on Wednesday questioned a solicitor acting for two axed Super Retail executives on his silence about an alleged settlement his clients are seeking to enforce.
Super Retail is bound by a settlement with two former executives who claim they were axed after complaints about its CEO’s undisclosed relationship with a former HR officer, a court has heard.
Super Retail Group can bring an appeal in its fight to suppress parts of a settlement two executives allege they reached after they were fired.
Super Retail has lost its bid to restrain Harmers Workplace Lawyers from acting for two former executives, despite a judge finding the firm had a conflict of interest.
Super Retail Group has sought production of communications between two former executives and their solicitors ahead of a fight to disqualify the lawyers from acting in the employment dispute.
Super Retail faces a second Federal Court case by a former senior female executive, after conciliation proceedings in the Fair Work Commission failed to resolve the complaint.
Super Retail Group has lost a bid to suppress parts of a case by former chief legal officer and company secretary Rebecca Farrell, who says she was sacked in May following complaints of corporate goverance issues, as a second senior employee steps up to back her former colleague’s claims.