Lessons from the unfair dismissal case involving a worker sacked for not doing enough while WFH
An employee who worked from home has lost her unfair dismissal bid, after her employer found low keystroke activity while monitoring her laptop.
An Indian restaurant in Perth and its owner have been fined a combined $200,000 for not paying a worker for close to four months, and then f…
The Federal Court has handed down penalties of $447,300 and ordered 49 workers be back-paid $223,000 in a case involving a Sydney-based faci…
Objections from workers at an Aldi distribution centre around the “averaging” of shift hours have prompted legal experts to remind SMEs it’…
Woolworths has been ordered to pay more than $650,000 to a former employee in a workplace injury case that one lawyer says will “up the an…
Executive bonuses can be touchy topics, but one Australian fund manager has withdrawn a proposed $10 million “crazy or death clause” fro…
Businesses are entitled to ask prospective employees about their criminal pasts, but should be careful when responding to the answers, accor…
For the first time the Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action against an accounting firm for its alleged involvement in the underpay…
A former employee at a Queensland restaurant has been back-paid $45,000 after the Fair Work Ombudsman discovered he was regularly working…
