A solicitor who says she wasnât paid for three years before her termination is suing her former employer — a âcommunity-orientedâ Sydney law firm — for over $185,000 in unpaid wages and other entitlements.
Big six firm Allens has bolstered the ranks of its employment and safety practice with the recruitment of partner Samantha Betzien from MinterEllison.
A former solicitor at the Victorian state revenue office who was dismissed after alleged sexual harassment and âscandalous staringâ has won his appeal in a defamation case against the Victorian government, with the case being sent to a judge for trial.
Qantas has asked the High Court to reverse a judgment that found it violated the Fair Work Act by axing 1,800 ground staff partly to prevent them from bringing industrial action.
The Fair Work Commission has overturned a finding that an Australian National University professor was unfairly fired over a 30-minute “intimate” beach encounter with a student, saying the student was unfairly cast as an âembittered seductress.â
The National Tertiary Education Industry Union has brought proceedings against the University of the Sunshine Coast for allegedly allocating teaching and research work to academic staff that did not âaccurately reflect the time taken to do the workâ.
The Sydney Symphony argues its former CEO can’t claim she was dismissed for investigating claims of sexual harassment by the orchestra’s musicians after previously telling the media she was the victim of a politically motivated “hit job” for seeking funding from the NSW government.
Amazon has settled a lawsuit accusing the e-commerce giant of violating the Fair Work Act by refusing to give an applicant a job because was pregnant.
Former secretary and general counsel for Noumi, formerly known as Freedom Foods, has dropped her unfair dismissal lawsuit after the maker of the popular Vitalife and MilkLab products tossed claims accusing her of serious misconduct.Â
A former ANZ employee has won her bid to discover a range of documents in her long-running dispute with the bank over alleged discrimination related to her pregnancies with her first two children.