A former general manager suing law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell has amended her pleadings as trial in her case resumes Friday, expanding her claims and including details of an email in which the firm’s managing partner allegedly slammed her practice of billing clients on a “menstrual based cycle”.
A public sector lawyer has failed to persuade the Fair Work Commission that he was eligible for progression pay rises despite his suspension for alleged misconduct that included repeatedly requesting that a colleague accept his friendship request on Facebook.
A landmark judgment by the Full Federal Court has found that a full bench of the Fair Work Commission “misconstrued” its own authority to make general protections findings about the dismissal of employees.
International law firm Seyfarth Shaw has snagged a leading workplace health and safety partner from Sparke Helmore to expand its Melbourne team.
A subsidiary of workforce management company Tandem, which contracts with Telstra and Optus, has foreshadowed future cross-claims against group members who claim they were misclassified as contractors and denied employment benefits.
Game show host and news presenter Simon Reeve is suing the Seven Network for breach of contract, seeking compensation and pecuniary penalties after his sudden dismissal in June during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The country’s underpayments scandal has claimed two more victims — international technology company IBM and Western Australian electricity provider Western Power, with the companies agreeing to back pay employees more than $20 million combined and saying “significant” additional back payments were still to come.
A former director of investment house Washington H. Soul Pattinson has won a damages payout of over $1.1 million after a court found that the ASX 100-listed company failed to pay her entitlements following termination of her employment without notice.
Human resource management company Harrier Group has been sued by its former managing director and CEO, who alleges she was bullied and overworked.
Evidence of an outdated management approach and bullying — which included threatening defamation proceedings against two junior lawyers that complained about her — appear to be responsible for the ousting of a former senior Piper Alderman partner, not her sex, a judge has found.