Companies

A sacked property finance executive at CBA, who told an unnamed person in the workplace to “calm the f*** down”, has denied his conduct amounted to bullying, claiming swearing was common among his colleagues. 

Coles Group's proposed leasehold acquisition of a Kalgoorlie supermarket and liquor store site needs further review, the competition regulator said Thursday.

The merger regulator will put Coles Group's proposed purchase of a Kalgoorlie supermarket and liquor store site in the hot seat, saying the leasehold acquisition could limit competition and needs further scrutiny.

Supermarket giant Coles and fast-food chain Hungry Jack's are among companies facing class actions by South Australian employees over Sunday pay entitlements.

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NAB has resolved a case by an employee who alleged an offer to work in the bank's Pitt St, Sydney branch was rescinded after her boss discovered she was pregnant.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