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PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeking to strike out a lawsuit brought by a former director who claims her notice of termination was invalid because it was delivered through DocuSign.
Qantas workers on stand-down orders during the coronavirus pandemic have lost an appeal to overturn a ruling that they are not entitled to access paid sick or compassionate leave.
The Federal Court has thrown out a lawsuit brought against the University of Sydney by a former political economy lecturer who was fired for a seminar slide that imposed the Nazi swastika on the Israeli flag.
Supermarket chain Romeo's has been hit with a second class action for allegedly underpaying managers across several stores in NSW.
The High Court has granted special leave to labour hire company WorkPac to challenge a Full Court judgment that granted entitlements to casual workers with regular shifts.
The director of a Melbourne law firm has been reprimanded and fined $10,000 for sending two letters to opposing counsel accusing him of being dishonest, following a protracted nine-year legal battle.
The Full Federal Court has upheld a ruling that the CFMEU was "knowingly concerned" in the refusal of union officers to produce entry permits at a Queensland building site, with the appeals court saying it was"difficult" to understand how the union was not an accessory to the contraventions of its employees.
Brisbane-based law firm Tucker Cowen and three of its principals are facing an unfair dismissal case by a former special counsel who exited the firm earlier this year.
An appeals court has overturned a $435,000 win for solicitor Zagi Kozarov, a former prosecutor in the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions specialist sexual offences unit, in her case blaming her working conditions for her severe post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
The Victorian government on Monday launched a pilot scheme to give casual and insecure workers up to five days' sick and carer's pay, but the plan earned scathing criticism from business groups and Attorney-General Christian Porter, who labelled it a business killer.