3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (651+ words) New ABS and Deputy data show record poly-employment, prompting a warning on managing conflict-of-interest risk Australia's side hustle economy has hit a new high. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported on 11 September that 1.0 million people held more than one…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (370+ words) The company's own settlement left it just one argument to make - and it fell short A plumbing company that dropped its union must go back to bargaining, after an appeals court upheld a labor board order. The US Court of…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (423+ words) Sales manager wins on commission but loses her bonus claim in HK court Deputy District Judge Alan Ng ruled on 10 August 2026 that a former sales manager was owed unpaid commission but had overclaimed her bonus. The dispute, heard in the…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (454+ words) She cut her medical leave short to keep her job - then says she was demoted Daiichi Sankyo demoted a longtime associate director after she took medical leave for a mental health crisis, then fired her, a new lawsuit claims. By…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (199+ words) The worker said a missing witness sank the employer’s case - the court saw it differently A senior manager sacked while off work with a psychological injury has lost her Federal Court appeal against the dismissal. On September 8, 2026, the Full Court…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (456+ words) A manager allegedly said the heavy assignment was meant to 'test' her injured shoulder A hospital denied a long-serving technician's injury accommodation, returned her to heavy lifting, then fired her days after she objected, a lawsuit alleges. NYU Hospitals Center…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (719+ words) hcamag.com Court sides with employer in race bias case, judge pushes back Every claim against the employer failed - but a judge flagged what courts keep getting wrong A federal appeals court sided with an employer accused of race bias…...

3+ day, 21+ hour 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, 16+ 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, 3+ 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…...