Full bench comments on restraints "a can of worms": Greg Savage.... Talent2 apologises for NZ payroll fiasco.... The Next Step makes two senior hires.... Randstad revenue per working day declines.... Victorian on-hire workers comp claims fall.... New initiative in ACTU insecure work campaign. read more
North Sydney IT recruitment company Skillsearch, part of the Rubicor group, has won an injunction barring its founder from doing unpaid work for another recruitment firm. read more
A court has upheld the right of IT recruitment firm Aurec to restrain its former contractor, after he took up a new role with the same client, through a competing agency. read more
HRX has this afternoon been granted an expedited hearing in the NSW Supreme Court in a case against one of its former business development managers, who it alleges breached his restraint provisions to join Talent2. read more
Former HRX director and high-profile recruitment industry executive, Brent Pearson is appealing against a Federal Court decision that barred him from working in the Australian human capital sector for two years. read more
Existing legislation will not protect recruitment companies from legal disputes over social media any more than a square peg will fit into a round hole, says specialist social media lawyer Elizabeth Briggs. read more
Data3 upgrades profit forecast.... Greythorn reorganises business lines, two senior staff depart.... New tool measures mobile recruitment site traffic.... Tender traps, restraint periods and fee disputes. read more
Legal recruitment company Naiman Clarke has succeeded in a bid to have its case over a former employee's LinkedIn network transferred to the NSW Supreme Court. read more
A judge has barred HRX co-founder Brent Pearson from working in the Australian human capital sector for two years, after a bitter court battle over his departure from the company. read more
When Brent Pearson and Katrina Leslie founded RPO company HRX in 2005, they talked about having a shared vision and a tight working relationship, but that shared vision has now degenerated into a legal battle of claim and counter-claim. read more
A former IT contractor with Clarius has lost a bid for damages against the company, after it restrained her from contracting directly with its client, Woolworths. read more
In a big shake-up of the HR recruitment sector, six of Australia's most experienced specialist HR recruiters have left market leader The Next Step, to establish their own business to be known as Tandem Partners. read more
