Software company that sacked employee with cancer urged to settle
A Sydney-based software company which sacked an employee with cancer has been strongly advised by a federal court judge to settle the complex case and avoid trial. Elliot McGarva had been away from...
View ArticleWhitehaven Coal activist Jonathan Moylan avoids jail time, released on $1000...
Jonathan Moylan has been sentenced to one year and eight months in jail by the Supreme Court of NSW today, but will be released immediately on a $1000 good behaviour bond for two years. Moylan sent out...
View ArticleSMEs warned about “smooth talking” DJ conman
Small businesses around the country are being warned about doing businesses with a former radio DJ whose actions have reportedly short-changed individuals and businesses thousands of dollars. Fairfax...
View ArticleTribunal backs suspension of ecstasy-taking bus driver
The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has backed the suspension of a bus driver who returned a positive drug test after taking an ecstasy tablet. The bus driver failed an oral drug test in January...
View ArticleMyer liar faces court on fraud charges
The US-born executive fired from Myer over lying on his CV has today faced the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court on one charge of fraud. Fairfax reports Andrew Flanagan appeared in court for a filing...
View ArticleMelbourne recruitment firm pays $11,000 in damages for using unlicensed...
An unnamed recruitment firm in Melbourne has paid $11,190 to settle a copyright breach claim with industry advocacy group the Software Alliance (BSA), for the use of unlicensed Microsoft Office...
View ArticleDan Murphy’s found not liable for death at work Christmas party
The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission has found a Dan Murphy’s employee was “on a frolic of her own” when she suffered fatal injuries at a work Christmas party. Jukes Campbell was a fine wine...
View ArticleAir conditioning installer fined $120,000 for failing to supply goods and...
The Melbourne Magistrates Court has ordered an air conditioning and heating business to pay the maximum possible penalty for breaches of the Australian Consumer Law. In a civil case brought by Consumer...
View ArticleDating website OKCupid admits to ‘experimenting’ on users: When is it OK to...
All is fair in love and war, according to online dating service OKCupid, which this week owned up to “experimenting” on its users. Just weeks after a research project involving Facebook’s manipulation...
View Article"Fait accompli": Court orders compensation for employee with heart condition...
A safety equipment company has been forced to compensate an employee with a heart condition after it told him to look for alternative work. The Federal Circuit Court found Melbourne-based Sayfa Systems...
View ArticleFormer employee files Fair Work claim over Frances Abbott’s scholarship...
A former employee of the Whitehouse Institute of Design has filed a legal claim following the fallout over the award of a scholarship to the Prime Minister’s daughter. The ex-employee of the school was...
View Article“A lot more companies will go to the wall”: warning as major solar developer...
One of the major players in the Australian solar industry has collapsed into administration, the latest victim of a “roller coaster” market. ASIC documents show Queensland based Ingenero had...
View ArticlePearl company charged two years after diver died on their second day on the job
A Western Australian pearl company has been charged by Worksafe with one count of failing to provide and maintain a safe working environment, two years after the death of one of its divers. The...
View ArticleImporter of hair care products found to have misled consumers; Aussie app...
An importer of hair care products has been found by the Federal Court to have made false and misleading representations about one of its hair straightening products. Dateline Imports said its Keratin...
View ArticleSacked whistleblower launches $900,000 unfair dismissal claim
A broker who allegedly blew the whistle on insider trading at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and NAB has launched a legal claim against his former employer in the Federal Court. Joel Murphy was...
View ArticleFair Work to crackdown on working holiday visas
Businesses employing overseas workers on 417 Working Holiday visas are being put on warning by the Fair Work Ombudsman, which is cracking down on wages and conditions for visa-holders. The 417...
View ArticleKeep your enemies closer: Jeff Kennett announced as Coles’ new referee
Supermarket giant Coles has taken an unusual step to improve relationships with its suppliers after it was accused of bullying, enlisting the help of one of its biggest critics. Jeff Kennett, who has...
View Article“I hear your pain”: chair of competition review tells small business
Professor Ian Harper, the chair of the competition policy review, told an audience of small business people at the 12th COSBOA National Small Business Summit in Melbourne yesterday: “I hear your pain.”...
View ArticleJudge orders Sydney carwash to clean up its act over $177,000 in underpayments
A Sydney car wash has been fined $90,000 in the Federal Court in Sydney after a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation found it had underpaid hundreds of its workers. The court found Crystal Carwash Café,...
View ArticleANZ employee claims she was threatened with disciplinary action for refusing...
An ANZ Bank employee has told a court she was threatened with disciplinary action after she refused to undergo a pelvic examination by an ANZ-chosen gynaecologist. Fairfax reports Katherine Bashour...
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