4+ day, 2+ min ago   (576+ words) ERA finds the ministry had lapses in its investigation A senior quarantine officer who was fired after taking a colleague to a friend's house for lunch has been reinstated to his role after the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) found his…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (231+ words) A restaurant paid cash to settle overtime, but never said what for An Alberta restaurant paid a departing cook thousands of dollars in cash to settle unpaid overtime, but could not say what period the payment covered. Its appeal over…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (273+ words) Genuine reason, botched process: how one redundancy still cost a small employer Employment Relations Authority member Helen van Druten ruled on 12 August 2026 that a genuine redundancy still amounted to unjustified dismissal. The case centred on a marketing employee who joined…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (318+ words) Four separate findings, one care plan, and a company that got the process right A disability support worker sacked over her conduct with a vulnerable client has lost her bid to have the dismissal overturned. The Fair Work Commission ruled…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (216+ words) His file said he retired. He says he never did - and got no severance A UPS supervisor of two decades says the company left his disability accommodation hanging for months, then quietly ended his job. The former operational supervisor sued…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (324+ words) One dismissal ground collapsed at the tribunal - the second one still ended her case A cruise operator sacked a night porter on two grounds. A tribunal rejected one - and still upheld the dismissal. On September 8, 2026, the Fair Work Commission found…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (348+ words) Employment Appeal Tribunal rules market pressures can justify pay gaps, reshaping equal pay claims across UK retail The UK's Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled Monday that Next was justified in paying warehouse staff more than shop-floor workers, overturning part of…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (635+ words) Court clarifies that a break in medical certification does not suspend the obligation to pay weekly workers compensation payments A Tasmanian public school employee has won a landmark workers compensation dispute after the state government attempted to use a gap…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (275+ words) A knee injury, a reorg, and a tribunal ruling HR can't ignore An employee's knee injury didn't disappear when his job did. British Columbia's human rights tribunal found that a national electronics retailer discriminated against him when it fired him during…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (266+ words) Her own doctor said she couldn't work, and her lawyer's brief had a bigger problem A federal court dismissed a former D.C. Lottery employee's disability, leave and overtime lawsuit, ruling for the employer on every claim. The US District Court for…...