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A tribunal has awarded a tunneller who worked on major projects like the Lane Cove tunnel project a record $2.4 for dust-related injury, describing the safety breaches of Bennett’s employers over his 30-year career as “egregious”.
Budget pharmacy giant Chemist Warehouse has been ordered to negotiate a multi-employer agreement with its South Australian workforce, after a union secured majority support from 300 pharmacy employees using new bargaining laws.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered labour hire firm Adecco to reinstate a pregnant worker who was unfairly dismissed from her role at an Amazon warehouse in Sydney after disclosing that she was seven weeks pregnant.
A former principal at law firm BlackBay accused of taking confidential client information to launch a rival law firm has lost his bid to file a new defence, with a judge calling the new pleadings "confused".
Slater & Gordon has lost its bid to summarily dismiss a negligence suit by a former human resources executive who claims she was wrongfully accused of sending a firm-wide email containing sensitive salary data.
Sydney Trains has reached an in-principle agreement to settle a class action by operations staff alleging a “systemic pattern” of underpayments and overwork.
Woolworths has been hit with a shareholder class action for underpaying workers hundred of millions of dollars, with investors alleging the supermarket giant issued inflated financial statements by failing to account for proper staff remuneration.
Slater & Gordon has settled a lawsuit by its former HR head alleging she was axed after expressing concerns that the firm deliberately underpaid over $300,000 in leave entitlements.
Commercial real estate broker Cushman & Wakefield has filed a cross-claim in a former managing director's unfair dismissal case seeking repayment of a $1.5 million bonus.
An umpire has lost his unfair dismissal claim against the Australian Football League after he was accused of wrestling, man-handling and frog-marching a member of the public off the field.