Employment

Flight Centre has been hit with legal action on behalf of employees accusing the travel giant of short-changing its workers through commission-based payments.

Security guard union United Voice has lost a challenge to a ruling that found Wilson Security could legally allocate overtime to Sundays over a four-week roster to avoid paying penalty rates.

Qantas has failed in its bid to appeal a decision by the Fair Work Commission to allow a terminated employee’s late unfair dismissal application to proceed because the worker’s solicitor was to blame for the delay.

The founder and former CEO of Smiles Inclusive has been taken to court by the dental company, which accuses him of serious misconduct over allegedly unlawful payments and transactions.

James Cook University unlawfully dismissed a professor who spoke out against the school and one of its scientists over its climate change views, a judge found Tuesday.

An Australian Rugby League Commission rule barring St George Illawarra Dragons forward Jack de Belin from taking the field is “draconian” and “unfair”, a court has heard at the beginnig of a three day trial challenging the ‘no-fault’ rule.

A judge has slapped fines of $33,350 against the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy union and a high-ranking official who pinned a project manager against a fence in a fight over a filthy portable toilet at a construction site in Adelaide.

A judge has refused a bid by Macquarie Bank and a group of former financial advisers to preside over a mediation of their spat over $2.6 million in wages, saying a judge can’t act as a mediator and he wouldn’t do it even if he could.

An appeals court has reimposed penalties against the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, its NSW branch and nine officials for unlawful industrial action at Barangaroo, but dropped the total fine from $2.5 million to $1.7 million.

The Federal Parliament has passed laws that impose stricter penalties on company directors that try to shirk their duty to pay employee entitlements during an insolvency.