Victorian public healthcare provider Peninsula Health has hit back at an underpayments class action brought by junior doctors, saying it was up to them to seek authorisation and payment for any overtime hours worked.
A shareholder class action against Crown Resorts can access transcripts of interviews conducted by the Victorian gaming regulator with former top brass and two Crown employees who were arrested in China in 2016 as part of a crackdown on gambling
Victoria’s gaming regulator may seek to block access by a shareholder class action against Crown Resorts to transcripts of interviews with Crown employees about a Chinese gambling crackdown that resulted in the jailing of 19 employees in 2016.
The judge considering the $50 million settlement reached in the shareholder class action against failed training company Vocation and auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers has signalled his likely approval of the deal, but wants a senior lawyer to tell the court why the funding commission is reasonable.
Victorian public healthcare provider Peninsula Health has been hit with a class action brought by junior doctors who claim they were deliberately unpaid despite working a significant amount of overtime each week.
Payouts in class actions in 2020 largely kept pace with the previous year despite the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, with companies and other defendants paying more than $696 million to settle class actions last year.
Shareholders of collapsed vocational training company Vocation are poised to get about half of a $50 million settlement reached last month in a complex, long-running class action alleging the company failed to make adequate disclosures about its contracts with the Victorian Department of Education.
Maurice Blackburn has hit Crown Resorts with a shareholder class action alleging the casino giant had lax anti-money laundering compliance systems in place over a six-year period.
A $50 million settlement has been reached in a long-running shareholder class action against defunct vocational training company Vocation that also spawned multiple cross-claims against the failed company’s auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, law firm Johnson Winter & Slattery and individual directors.
Maurice Blackburn is looking at potentially expanding its shareholder class action against Crown Resorts after it emerged at the NSW gaming authority inquiry that the casino giant may have breached anti-money laundering laws.