Events

A union has lost an appeal of a decision which found packaging company Opal Packaging was allowed to reintroduce drug and alcohol testing of staff under a new methodology while a union challenge was on foot.

Adani has asked the court to toss a class action by First Nations landowners over media statements made during a dispute over the Carmichael open cut mine in Queensland.

Mastercard risked losing half its revenue from retail interchange fees as a result of the Reserve Bank's least-cost routing initiative, and struck deals with top retailers to defend its core business, a court was told Wednesday.

A judge has thrown out a law firm's bid to review a costs assessment manager's decision to grant a Sydney silk more time to make a costs assessment application for services he provided almost a decade ago.

A Western Australian couple has sued fertility services provider Monash IVF after the company implanted a woman with a different embryo than the one they had donated.

A trial judge has heard that Mastercard's top Australian executives discussed stripping Woolworths of strategic merchant status if the supermarket giant routed customer transactions through the cheaper EFTPOS network.

The Full Court has tossed a former Neometals employee's appeal of his failed whistleblower case, finding the company did not believe he had made a protected disclosure when making him redundant despite the company conceding that the was "somebody who frequently raised issues".

Mastercard's Australia boss was anxious to sign a deal with Woolworths on payments processing after learning that Coles had chosen to route all debit transactions through the cheaper EFTPOS network, a court has heard.

EnergyAustralia has lost its appeal of a finding that it's on the hook for portable long service leave for maintenance workers at its Yallourn power station because its significant maintenance activities mean it's 'in the construction industry', a ruling that could affect energy, rail and telecommunications firms.

An appeals court has found the owners of a cotton farm in Queensland are liable for causing nuisance to their neighbours after building a flood mitigation levee, despite the levee being a “common and ordinary” use of the land.