Macquarie Group has defended its remuneration package for financial advisers in its private wealth unit, denying claims it paid them entirely in commissions and unlawfully withheld regular wages.
A judge on Friday bemoaned the slow progress of an unfair dismissal suit brought against the CFMMEU by two whistleblowers, telling lawyers at a hearing Friday he wanted “something to happen” in the case
Spanish-controlled services company Broadspectrum has struck out in its appeal of a decision by the Fair Work Commission not to approve an enterprise agreement with four employees slated to work in its new justice business unit.
A file note from a Herbert Smith Freehills lawyer is protected by legal professional privilege, a judge has ruled, shooting down a claim by the CFMMEU that the note may have been part of an unlawful scheme to block its merger with two other unions.
AstraZeneca is appealing a Fair Work Commission decision that workers are guaranteed 10 days’ sick leave under the National Employment Standards regardless of how long their working day is.
Supermarket giant Woolworths has been hit with union action to scrap its enterprise bargaining agreement and put it on the hook for $1 billion in unpaid wages.
Fundraising company Appco Group Australia has failed in its bid to put a massive sham contracting class action in the Federal Court on hold while it fights a ruling that let the case continue as a representative proceeding.
Two weeks after announcing it would pull out of Australia, delivery food company Foodora has gone into administration, putting the brakes on two unfair dismissal cases and a sham contracting action by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
A casual worker hired as a truck driver at a Rio Tinto coal mine was entitled to annual leave, the Full Federal Court said Friday in a landmark judgement that says employees on predictable, regular shifts are not casual even when employers give them the designation.
Chicken processor Inghams has won an appeal of a ruling that put it on the hook for the late-night assault of a shift worker in the car park of the company’s poultry plant in Murarrie, Queensland.