The High Court had been asked to clarify the extent of protection for employers for genuine redundancies under the Fair Work Act, after an appeals court found the exemption was “not absolute”.
An underpayments class action brought by postgraduate research candidates at the University of Sydney is facing another summary dismissal bid from the federal government, as the university foreshadows a novel argument that the group members are not employees.
The collapsed companies behind dumpling chain Din Tai Fung have been hit with over $3.8 million in penalties after a judge found they engaged in a āa calculated scheme to rob employees of their hard-earned wages and deceive the authoritiesā.
The allowance for genuine redundancies is ānot absoluteā and employers need to consider measures to redeploy workers, including retraining, an appeals court has said in an unfair dismissal case involving 22 mining workers.
A judge has ordered Seven Network to pay $35,000 to a man who said he was defamed by the broadcaster, finding that he āspat towardsā but not at the alleged rape victim of rugby league footballer Jarryd Hayne.Ā
The Fair Work Ombudsman has won its underpayments case against restaurant chain Sushi Bay and its director, with a judge finding the company forced migrant workers to pay back their entitlements in cash in a ācalculated and institutional effortā to conceal wrongdoing.Ā
The judge who found that disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith committed war crimes in Afghanistan did not show āfull consideration of the presumption of innocenceā in his defamation case, an appeals court has heard.Ā
Independent Sydney member Alex Greenwich and politician Mark Latham have failed to resolve their defamation stoush out of court over a “notorious” homophobic tweet by the NSW One Nation leader.
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.
Ten wants to stay a sex discrimination claim brought by journalist Tegan George in light of separate personal injury proceedings seeking damages from the broadcaster over PTSD allegedly caused by reporting from the 2019-2020 bushfires.