A commission has rejected a claim for accrued annual leave from a group of on-hire oil and gas workers, in a case with wider ramifications for fly-in-fly-out employees on rotating rosters. read more
A specialist hospitality recruitment company has failed to overturn an order requiring it to refund a perm fee after the placement of a head chef fell through. read more
An on-hire worker has failed to prove Hays "destroyed" their employment relationship and constructively dismissed her when it ended her assignment before investigating a client's misconduct allegations read more
A recruitment company has a "sufficiently strong" case against a former business development manager who it claimed breached his contract by soliciting clients away to his new employer, the Federal Court has ruled. read more
A recruitment company has won confidentiality and solicitation restraints against a competitor and a former employee, after a court found it faced a "high risk" of "irreparable damage" if an injunction wasn't imposed. read more
A labour hire employee who rejected offers to find her new work after a 10-year placement ended could not argue she had been "dismissed", the Fair Work Commission has ruled. read more
A labour hire company has successfully argued that COVID restricted its ability to monitor and enforce its WHS procedures at client sites, resulting in a lower fine for its breaches. Meanwhile, Skilled had no right to sack a trainee who was involved in a safety incident, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. read more
Ahead of the limits on fixed-term contracts taking effect on 6 December, the accompanying regulations are now available, and the Fair Work Ombudsman has updated its website with new information on the laws and their exceptions. read more