A court has found the managing director of teahouse franchise Chatime liable for the underpayment of staff, despite accepting that he believed the company’s wage system was not unlawful.
Qantas has succeeded in attacking claims that it created a workplace that was “hostile to women”, leveled in a former female pilot’s sex discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit.
A former Cushman & Wakefield director is appealing a ruling released Friday that upheld a non-compete restraint in her employment contract with the real estate services giant.
An appeals court has found a seven-year non-competition clause in US tech giant DXC Eclipse’s agreement with the former director of Melbourne software firm Sable37, which it acquired in 2018, was unreasonable.
Fund manager Pendal Group has fended off calls to produce documents two months out from trial in a case by a portfolio manager who alleges he was threatened with termination while on stress leave, and later made redundant.
A court has heard that a director at office leasing company Cushman & Wakefield who accepted a job with a competitor could lose a $1.3 million sign-on bonus if the case by her former employer is not promptly resolved.
A director at office leasing company Cushman & Wakefield who accepted a job with a competitor has lost a bid to lift an injunction keeping her on garden leave for three months, with a judge finding she was the “author of her own misfortune” for failing to read her employment contract.
A judge has found a BHP mine took adverse action against a labour hire worker by excluding him from entering a Queensland mine after he complained about safety, rejecting arguments that the mine could not take adverse action because it did not employ the worker directly.
A Pendal fund manager who accused his boss of constant insults and belittling has lost his application for an order to stop bullying, with the Fair Work Commission finding it was not within its jurisdiction to remedy a “dysfunctional work relationship”.
Financial services giant Willis Towers Watson ordered a former executive to lie to clients on his way out of the organisation and imposed an “unreasonable” two-year employment restraint, a NSW Supreme Court has found.