The Transport Workers Union has described the Deliveroo business model as âthe biggest sham in the modern economyâ, as it launched a new sham contracting case against the food delivery service on the back of its victory against Foodora last year.
CFMEU state boss John Setka has lost his court challenge to a vote to expel him from the Australian Labor Party, with the Victorian Supreme Court ruling it did not have the jurisdiction to rule on the case.
Arguing the pleadings are “evasive or ambiguous”, Domino’s Pizza has made a bid to strike out the statement of claim filed in a class action alleging franchisees underpaid thousands of workers across Australia for five years.
In a majority ruling that will have significant ramifications for how companies calculate employees’ personal leave days, the Full Federal Court has found that the method used by food manufacturer Mondelez in granting the entitlement for its Tasmanian shift workers left them worse off than under the Fair Work Act.
The CFMEU will fund a landmark multi-million dollar class action against labour hire company Workpac seeking repayment of leave entitlements it claims are owed to more than 600 coalminers, in the latest casual employee challenge to hit the courts.
A senior partner at a Sydney-based law firm has denied he made a “deliberate decision” to withhold advice from a former client suing for alleged breach of duties and conflict of interest over a rejected $4.45 million settlement in an employment dispute with Westpac.
A restructuring and insolvency solicitor who is suing Russells Lawyers for summarily dismissing him has largely won a discovery dispute over evidence in the case, with a judge ruling the lawyer could access communications between any of the partners related to his termination two years ago.
A judge has criticised two units of global finance firm TP ICAP Group for “unnecessary and over technical interlocutory skirmishes” as they seek damages from two employees who jumped ship to a competitor and allegedly tried to poach staff.
A judge has ruled that a former executive of cyber security firm Secure Logic Group, who took advice from a lawyer to destroy the contents of a personal computer that allegedly contained confidential infomation from the company, has waived legal professional privilege over the communication.
An appeal judge has stayed a $170,000 judgment against the head of a New South Wales law firm after he was found to have engaged in a âparticularly sinisterâ campaign of sexual harassment against a former employee, despite concerns that some of his appeal grounds were âbarely arguableâ.