Employment

Qantas has secured a temporary injunction from a Singapore court blocking a former company executive from starting a new position at competitor Virgin Australia.

A junior solicitor's meeting notes during an ASIC investigation of ANZ did not belong to her client despite the lawyer billing for her attendance at the meeting, law firm HWL Ebsworth has argued before a skeptical judge.

Deloitte has failed to set aside a request for documents recording talks with partners about retirement after they turned 62, in a closely watched age discrimination lawsuit challenging the accounting firm’s mandatory retirement policy.

Monash Health and LaTrobe Regional Health Service have been hit with a class action on behalf of junior doctors in Victoria who allege they were denied pay for overtime hours worked over the past six years, the second underpayments class action filed by junior doctors in the state.

NSW public sector employees have lost their bid for a 2.5 per cent salary increase, with an appeals court upholding a decision which found the economy would be better served by public spending on infrastructure investment than public service salaries.

NSW Health has hit back at a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors, saying that because they did not submit an overtime claim they were taken to have worked the additional hours “of their own volition”.

A judge has temporarily barred Qantas from moving forward with its plans to terminate a long haul pilot who reached the mandatory retirement age of 65, saying the pilot had established that he may have an age discrimination claim against the airline.

Two lawyers facing a lawsuit over their defection from specialist IP firm Pizzeys Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys have failed in their bid to have separate hearings in the case concerning the validity of non-compete clauses in their employment contracts.

The Fair Work Commission has found a childcare worker's dismissal from a Goodstart Early Learning centre for refusing to take a mandatory influenza vaccine was not harsh, unjust or unreasonable.

Piper Alderman has settled a dispute with a former partner who claimed the law firm discriminated against her when she was ousted from the partnership.