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Woolworths faces $1B backpay claim in challenge to EBA
Employment 2018-08-23 10:05 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Appco can’t put brakes on ‘sham contracting’ class action
Class Actions 2018-08-21 1:05 pm By Miklos Bolza

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.

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Foodora enters administration, leaves landmark cases in limbo
Employment 2018-08-17 10:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Casual worker with predictable roster entitled to annual leave, Full Court says
Employment 2018-08-16 11:08 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Inghams’ failures did not cause worker’s car park assault, court says
Employment 2018-08-15 11:43 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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CFMMEU warned of deregistration risk for ‘aberrant’ conduct
Employment 2018-08-14 11:42 pm By Christine Caulfield

The CFMMEU must force “systemic behavioural change” on its construction division, a majority Full Federal Court said Tuesday in upholding a fine of $306,000 for workplace breaches against the union and raising the spectre of deregistration.

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Law firm must pay for ‘ineffective’ radio ads, court says
Contracts 2018-08-14 9:21 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Employment law firm McDonald Murholme has lost an appeal in a case over $37,000 in unpaid bills for five months of radio advertisements on the Victorian Radio Network the firm said were ineffective.

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Big W worker wins $543,000 after injury sidelines career as paramedic
Employment 2018-08-06 7:40 pm By Christine Caulfield

A Big W worker whose on-the-job injury caused her chronic leg and back pain has won $543,000 in damages against Woolworths after the company admitted breaching its duty to the teenager.

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UAE Exchange pays $1.3M to shortchanged workers
Employment 2018-08-02 2:07 pm By Christine Caulfield

Foreign currency exchange business UAE Exchange Australia will compensate over 200 workers $1.335 million after a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation found the company underpaid wages and illegally forced employees to ‘make good’ on daily till shortages.

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Qantas right to sack flight attendant who got drunk off-duty, FWC says
Employment 2018-08-01 8:53 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The dismissal of a Qantas flight attendant who got drunk on peach martinis while off duty in New York City was not unfair, the Fair Work Commission has found.

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