The Fair Work Commission has upheld the firing of a Melbourne University professor who was found to have pursued an inappropriate personal relationship with a former employee who later complained she had been “groomed”.
The former dean of art school LCI Melbourne is seeking over $860,000 in compensation in a case alleging she was unfairly sacked via Instagram direct message because she took paid annual leave during “the most important term of the year”.
A judge has rejected a Federal Circuit and Family Court judge’s decision to transfer a PhD student’s Fair Work lawsuit against the University of Western Australia to the Federal Court because his court does not have the proper resources to consider it.
The Full Federal Court has upheld a finding that online educator Captain Cook College engaged in systemic unconscionable conduct by enrolling thousands of unsuitable students, who accrued $60 million in debt but never finished their courses.
Dominique Grubisa has denied the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s allegation that she misled consumers about her wealth management courses, arguing the claims that owners could sell their homes but retain equity were “substantially true”.
The federal government’s bid to shut down an underpayments class action on behalf of postgraduate research candidates at universities across Australia remains to be heard after a judge rejected the self-represented applicant’s bid to strike out the strike-out application.
A former University of Technology Sydney professor based in Shanghai who accused the university of race and age discrimination over two years ago has been given another chance to plead his case, after a judge found he failed to fix pleadings that were previously struck out.
The University of Sydney has appealed a judgment finding it unlawfully terminated a political economy lecturer for showing students a slide of a Nazi swastika superimposed on the Israeli flag.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken wealth guru Dominique Grubisa and her business DG Institute to court for allegedly misleading students of their real estate investing and wealth management programs.
A judge has approved a $33 million settlement in a class action against vocational education provider Box Hill Institute, but taken the ax to a law firm’s proposed 18.25 per cent loading on its fees, saying courts shouldn’t approve uplifts for run of the mill legal work.