28/11/2025
GOOD NEWS STORY
Today was a good day for natural justice. We have been working with an amazingly talented hairdresser in Queensland for just over a month. This person came to us after her former boss filed an intimidating and frivolous QCAT claim.
The claim stated that our client had breached their employment contract by opening their own business and servicing clients of their former employer. It also claimed without any evidence, that our client had stolen the organisation’s client list.
Fair Go Association worked with our client to inform her of her rights, to explain the legal process, wrote a letter to her former employer outlining the weaknesses in their claim and prepared a response to the application for QCAT. Ultimately, FGA was able to convince the organisation to withdraw their application to QCAT because:
- They had no evidence of wrongdoing
- Our client did not have a restraint of trade clause in their contract and even if they did it would not have been valid in the circumstances
- Our client was permitted to service clients who she met and had contact with through her previous employer. This is not a breach of confidentiality unless there is clear evidence that shows that our client used confidential information to contact that client
It was an amazing phone call to make on a Friday evening to a young woman who was eternally grateful and in tears.
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