A judge has blasted energy broker Energy Action’s bid for interim orders enforcing a confidentiality agreement against a former employee who jumped ship to a competitor, calling the bid âgrossly excessiveâ.
Administrators of collapsed budget airline Bonza have been given two more months to try to sell the company, with the Federal Court finding a sale would be of greater benefit than liquidation to the airline’s 58,428 creditors, who are owed $116 million.Â
Global Paymentsâ plan to acquire Sydney software company School Bytes Learning may substantially lessen competition, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said in outlining preliminary concerns with the deal.
A court has imposed an interim injunction on a former Samsung Electronics business manager, restraining him from taking a similar role with rival Electrolux until a case alleging breach of post-employment restraints is heard.
A tribunal will recommend that a Perth solicitor be struck from the roll of practitioners after being found to have engaged in professional misconduct for failing to comply with requests for information by Western Australia’s legal complaints body.
Ramsay Health Care has won a partial interim injunction banning the union representing its nurses from running ads that claim the private hospital operator runs on a staff-to-patient ratio double that of public hospitals.
Consumers are âgenerally unawareâ of the extent to which data firms and third parties mine and utilise their data, according to a report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.Â
The Northern Territory public housing authority has moved to throw out a class actionâs claims that it engaged in racial discrimination by failing to maintain public housing in remote Aboriginal communities.Â
Sydney Trains can’t unilaterally direct engineering workers to wear long pants while working but must carry out its obligation to consult with them first, Fair Work Commission has said.
Victoria Attorney-General Jaclyn Symesâ interference in a Fire Rescue Victoria union dispute was not “unlawful, unconscionable or illegitimate”, despite the AG overstepping her statutory authority, a judge has found.