Companies

Tesla can't escape a case by a motorist over his car's self-driving capabilities, despite overlap with a class action, with a tribunal saying there was no abuse of process while the driver could not opt out of the group proceeding.

NAB has resolved a case by an employee who alleged an offer to work in the bank's Pitt St, Sydney branch was rescinded after her boss discovered she was pregnant.

A tribunal has found Deloitte’s cost-benefit analysis on new energy efficiency standards is protected from disclosure under Freedom of Information laws because it contains trade secrets.

A former BHP Coal employee has lost his unfair dismissal case, with the Fair Work Commission finding  his conduct in throwing a mug and threatening a co-worker was a valid reason for dismissal. 

In the first of dozens of similar cases to be decided, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found Uber breached its contract with a driver by deactivating his account over seven complaints.

An appeals court has handed BHP a win in a dispute with Aquila Steel over the boundary between their neighbouring mining tenements, rejecting Aquila’s “fanciful” argument about the construction of a 58-year-old document.

BHP and Rio Tinto have told a court that the claims of thousands of women who allegedly experienced workplace sexual harassment and discrimination should not be brought as class actions.

BHP has filed a High Court challenge to orders requiring it to pay labour hire workers at mines in central Queensland the same as its workers.

Deloitte has warned that publishing evidence filed in support of its successful bid for an increase in settlement administration costs in a stolen wages class action could have a “chilling effect”.

Social media companies have removed, deactivated or restricted about 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under 16 during the first month of the country's social media ban, according to the eSafety Commissioner.