A bitter feud between the national office of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union and union heayweight John Setka, who is accused of poaching members from the manufacturing division, should not play out in court, lawyers for Setka said Wednesday.
IT giant Hewlett-Packard Australia has been ordered to pay over $370,000 in unpaid commissions to a former sales executive after a court found the company could not change its incentives “arbitrarily, capriciously or unreasonably”.
A division of the CFMEU has criticised a court ruling barring members from industrial action against stevedoring giant DP World Australia Group, calling it an “alarming attack on democratic rights”.
A barrister and former associate director of a boutique Melbourne law firm has brought legal action alleging the firm wrongfully terminated his employment after he complained about a “culture of staff going behind people’s backs”.
The CFMEU is facing a lawsuit by four units of DP World Australia Group after refusing to accept the terms of four proposed enterprise agreements unless the stevedoring giant guaranteed it would not automate its terminals.
Veteran NRL player agent Sam Ayoub has won his case against his former protege and another employee who left his Ultra Management Sports agency in 2017 and took 18 players with them.
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a general protections dispute brought by an “agoraphobic” beautician after social media posts revealed an active social life including gin, Greek food and the Melbourne Cup.
A last ditch effort to resolve a case brought by a restructuring and insolvency solicitor against Russells Lawyers over his dismissal has failed and the dispute will head to trial this year, more than three years after he was sacked.
A casual worker at Bed Bath N’ Table worked shifts that were sufficiently regular for her to bring an unfair dismissal claim against the homewares retailer, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Online food delivery platform Deliveroo has defended its business model in a wage theft case brought by a former delivery rider, saying he acknowledged he was an independent contractor when he signed up.