A health and safety law specialist has joined Johnson Winter Slattery as partner after working at Clyde & Co for almost a decade.
A judge has issued a five-year suppression order over documents in a settled lawsuit by a former Seven journalist, saying the order was necessary to incentivize settlements in similar cases.
Netflix says it was reasonable to make a manager redundant while she was on maternity leave, saying it was part of a restructure and that “ongoing performance issues” meant she was not suitable for a new role.
ASX-listed jewellery chain Lovisa has been hit with a class action after employees claimed it failed to pay them for extra hours worked.
Space company Equatorial Launch Australia, which is facing an unfair dismissal from its former CEO, has told a court that solvency issues mean the former executive cannot call on $5 million in convertible notes.
A nurses union has won orders barring St Vincent’s Private from representing to nurses that protected industrial action in relation to the closure of beds at various hospitals is unlawful and unprotected.
The largest KFC franchisee in Australia has been ordered to pay damages to a former breastfeeding manager after a tribunal found she had to express milk under a tent in a doorless storeroom.
Bakers Delight has filed a challenge to a finding that it was subject to a statutory reverse onus aimed at employers, in a Fair Work Ombudsman underpayments case against a franchisee.
Australia’s peak legal body has come out in support of the Albanese government’s gender equality targets bill, but called for guidance on what is a “reasonable excuse” for non-compliance.
Unions involved in Sydney’s rail worker pay dispute have agreed to pause all industrial action and revive negotiations with the NSW government on a new enterprise agreement.