The New South Wales government has pushed to consolidate a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors with multiplying industrial actions filed by Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation.
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.
Noumi, the company formerly known as Freedom Foods, has dropped defence claims that it was entitled to sack its former secretary and group general counsel for serious misconduct.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has hit back at a $45 million lawsuit alleging it failed to provide thousands of employees with paid rest breaks for at least six years, saying it had no responsibility to schedule or roster the breaks.
Fleet management company Orix Australia has struck out in its bid to access certain files in an abandoned criminal case against two former senior executives as it seeks to claw back what it claims are losses suffered as a result of their breaches of duty.
One Nation chief-of-staff James Ashby has failed to revive his lawsuit alleging the federal government breached the Fair Work Act by not paying his $4.5 million legal bill stemming from a dropped sexual harassment case against former House speaker Peter Slipper.
A former truck driver for Cooloola Milk who claims he was fired after asking about overtime pay has won his legal challenge to a decision finding that he was a casual employee and not entitled to protections against dismissal.
A solicitor and former client is suing Corrs Chambers Westgarth for “very significant damages”, alleging breaches of multiple duties by the law firm in the course of protracted litigation.
Explaining his decision to reject a class action settlement that would have earned a law firm $1.75 million but provided nothing to 27,000 Woolworths employees, a judge has said the agreement created a conflict of interest between the solicitors and the workers they sought to set “adrift”.
Big Six firm Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed a PricewaterhouseCoopers veteran as its first director of global workforce strategy and implementation.