The Albanese government has started a public consultation after ditching provisions from sex harassment legislation which would have forced parties to bear their own costs in discrimination litigation, noting that lawyers favour an ‘equal access’ costs model.
Journalist Tegan George has reworked her sex discrimination case against Network Ten, claiming the Canberra bureau had a culture that was “sexually hostile, demeaning and oppressive”.
Car repair giant AMA Group is set to file an omnibus claim against ousted CEO Andrew Hopkins and a handful of former senior executives in an effort to consolidate the allegations in a legal saga that spans two jurisdictions.
A Melbourne doctor who was not allowed to work from home following an injury has lost his disability discrimination suit against his former employer, and was ordered to pay over $570,000 to the practice for his absences.
Employment law firm Kingston Reid has been hit with Fair Work proceedings by a former paralegal who says the firm ignored her complaints about “ongoing bullying and humiliation” and fired her because she became pregnant.
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.
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.
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.
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.