An employer has won injunctions restraining two former employees accused of soliciting its clients to a competitor, with the Federal Court finding it needed protection from their "coordinated scheme".
An HR manager has failed to prove a supervisor's conduct during a performance review breached her employment contract, with a court finding she should have expected some negative feedback.
Under new laws introduced to limit the use of fixed-term contracts, it will be crucial for employers to overcome some practical compliance obstacles, a workplace lawyer says.
A worker claiming she was unfairly dismissed has won an appeal, with the Fair Work Commission finding an earlier ruling that she earned above the high-income threshold was made in error.
It was open to conclude that an employer would keep losing clients if its former employee wasn't restrained from using its confidential information at his new workplace, the Federal Court has ruled.
A worker can pursue her claim that she was unfairly sacked for receiving a COVID-19 vaccination, after the Fair Work Commission found she was an employee, not an independent contractor.
After hiring two employees from its competitor Employsure, HR software company Elmo has won one dispute and lost the other over whether the post-employment restraints in their contracts were reasonable.
The Fair Work Commission has 'closed its eyes' to certain realities about a contracting relationship, in upholding an organisation's appeal against a finding that a delivery rider was an employee with unfair dismissal rights.
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