A court has declined to take the "extreme" step of throwing out a general protections case with a "long and troubled history" brought by a former FSU employee against the union, its national secretary and a state leader.
A court has tossed out a former accountant's novel claim that Bunnings' decision to dismiss him after discovering he had s-xually harassed a supervisor at a different job more than a decade earlier amounted to discrimination on the basis of "social origin".
A court has rebuffed a safety manager's attempt to unearth physical evidence that Watpac sacked him as a result of union pressure rather than for allegedly instigating anonymous threats to a CFMMEU delegate and his partner.
IR advisor Employsure has failed to stop Workplace Express from accessing part of a manager's adverse action claim, after contending that it contained confidential information about a restructure that could give competitors an advantage.
A lawyer is suing her former firm for $2 million in a case accusing it of misrepresenting her employment as that of an independent contractor and discriminating against her because of her gender, race and age.
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has in winning broad-ranging suppression orders "strongly" rejected the claim by a former IT officer suing it over an alleged "sham" redundancy that such measures were pointless given potential witnesses could be readily identified through their LinkedIn profiles.
The FWC has extended time for a Virgin Australia employee's seven-minutes-late general protections claim after accepting that her "emotionally abusive" domestic relationship that made her "a prisoner in her own home" constituted an exceptional circumstance.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has initiated legal action against the University of Melbourne, alleging it coerced and took adverse action against two casual academics to stop them claiming payment for work they performed.
A senior Aldi manager challenging the legality of being denied primary carer's leave under the retailer's apparently rebranded parental leave policy is suing the supermarket giant for discrimination, after it allegedly brought his redundancy forward and cut 26 weeks off his payout while he was on leave.
An eminent cardiologist facing multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards colleagues and patients, including that he said he did not "give a shit" about a patient's pacemaker, is seeking court orders calling off an investigation and revoking his suspension.