In its first decision applying a landmark High Court judgment redefining the test for when a worker is employed, the Federal Court has found a sessional lecturer for a higher education institution was an employee.
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 “accurately reflect the time taken to do the work”.
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 “embittered seductress.”
Herbert Smith Freehills has partnered with the University of New South Wales on a practical training course for the firm’s Australian graduates that will allow them to start practicing sooner.
Catalyst Training is suing the Box Hill Institute and Centre for Adult Education over a botched subcontracting agreement, which it says the vocational education provider failed to seek government approval for.
ASIC has lost a bid to dismiss former G8 Education chair Jennifer Hutson’s application seeking declarations that she was unlawfully examined by the regulator over the company’s $162 million hostile takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.
A judge has rejected an application by training provider Captain Cook College to postpone the hearing of its appeal in a case won by the ACCC, saying the company’s inability to fund the appeal was “largely a problem of [its] own making.”
A Fair Work commissioner who previously slammed vaccine mandates as “medical apartheid” has found that an Australian National University professor was unfairly fired over a 30-minute “intimate” beach encounter with a student.
The liquidator of collapsed vocational education provider Careers Australia can serve its lawsuit on two of the company’s former directors now living overseas, after a judge found a prima facie case of insolvent trading and breaches of directors duties had been made out.
The liquidator of collapsed vocational education provider Careers Australia has filed a lawsuit against the company’s former directors, including founding CEO of Optus Robert Mansfield, seeking damages for alleged insolvent trading and breach of directors’ duties over a $40 million dividend the company allegedly could not afford.