A PwC director who was terminated after suffering a back injury at work has sued the accounting giant claiming that her notice of termination was invalid because it was delivered through DocuSign.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured its first penalties under ‘serious contraventions’ provisions of the Fair Work Act, seeing a recidivist former Han’s Café franchisee in Perth and general manager slapped with $230,000 in fines for the”cavalier” and “entirely unacceptable” underpayment of vulnerable, young migrant workers.
A McDonald’s franchisee has been ordered to pay $82,000 in penalties for systemically denying workers drink and toilet breaks and misleading them about their break entitlements, providing fuel for a class action investigation into the US fast food chain for allegedly denying workers rest breaks.
In an important ruling that confines the scope of “industrial activity” under the Fair Work Act, the Full Federal Court has overturned a $50,000 fine against the CFMEU and two officials for organising a work stoppage at a Brighton construction site that the union said needed a female toilet.
CFMEU official Michael O’Connor has successfully appealed a ruling that threw out his lawsuit seeking to restrain union heavyweight John Setka from poaching members from the union’s manufacturing division.
National medical centre operator Healius has agreed to pay back wages of $15.3 million to thousands of nurses, doctors and dentists after reporting “widespread underpayments” for over eight years.
Litigation funder Augusta Ventures has won its challenge to a landmark ruling that it pay $3.1 million in security for the costs of two Fair Work class actions it is financing on behalf of casual mine workers.
Australia’s peak legal body has repeated its calls for an integrity commission after allegations of sexually inappropriate conduct by two senior Federal Government ministers — including Attorney General Christian Porter — were aired Monday night on ABC’s Four Corners program.
A 59-year-old Qantas engineer who used his company-issued iPad to view pornographic material while at work has lost his unfair dismissal appeal.
The former company secretary and group general counsel of Freedom Foods has filed an unfair dismissal lawsuit accusing the food and beverage company of sidelining her in her role and making decisions that put her at risk of an ASIC investigation.