The Transport Workers Union has predicted wide-reaching consequences for workplace rights if Qantas succeeds in its High Court appeal of a finding that it breached the Fair Work Act when it outsourced ground crew work during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A law firm running underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths has sought orders forcing them to hand over contact details for key workers in the Fair Work Ombudsman’s parallel cases, which the supermarket giants lashed as likely to “cause chaos” in the proceedings.
Dozens of Macquarie advisers who previously won a $330,000 payday against the bank have been ordered back to court for a rehearing of their long-running case over employment entitlements.
Independent MP Monique Ryan’s chief of staff Sally Rugg will extend mediation talks with the politician and the Commonwealth, with the parties optimistic they can resolve Rugg’s Fair Work lawsuit out of court.
The Sydney Flames has secured an expedited hearing in a Fair Work case filed by basketball great and former head coach Shane Heal.
Melbourne law firm KHQ Lawyers has been sued for a former junior lawyer who alleges the firm compiled a “haphazard collection” of allegations as pretense to fire her after she complained about workplace bullying.
UGL Limited has agreed to pay $438,000 to settle a class action accusing the engineering company of underpaying casual aluminium construction and manufacturing workers over a three year-period.
Stock broker Fortrend Securities has secured an order prohibiting two former advisors from contacting their old clients while they litigate a dispute alleging the advisors conspired with Shaw & Partners to poach customers.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has brought its first-ever court proceedings against a franchisor, alleging it is legally responsible for its franchisees’ underpayments of nine workers.
Uber has won a strike-out bid in a lawsuit by drivers challenging their classification as independent contractors, with a judge finding the pleading was “self-evidently, uncommonly and irretrievably deficient.”