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KFC franchisee forced breastfeeding manager to express milk in tent
Employment 2025-01-23 3:45 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The largest KFC franchisee in Australia has been ordered to pay damages to a former breastfeeding manager after a tribunal found she had to express milk under a tent in a doorless storeroom.

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Defunct landbanking scheme Aviation 3030 recovers $1.7M duty from director
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-01-28 9:45 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The liquidators for landbanking company Aviation 3030 can recover half of a $3.4 million landholder duty from a former director, after a judge found they reaped benefits from indirect ownership in land sold for $135 million in 2018. 

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Court won’t restrain work on Healesville Railway Line reconstruction
Construction 2025-01-28 11:03 pm By Andy Sidler

Residents of a property near the historic Healesville Railway Line have failed in their bid to halt works proceeding on weekends and out of hours, with a judge calling their complaints “oversensitive”.

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Mineralogy can’t get more discovery from CITIC in $12B Pilbara mine feud
Appeals 2025-01-23 4:27 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mineralogy has lost its bid for expanded discovery from CITIC in a case seeking to compel the Clive Palmer-owned tenement owner to file expansion proposals allegedly needed to maintain production at a Pilbara iron mine.

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Energy Queensland unit fights probe into Centrepay charges
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-01-23 1:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Ergon Energy is challenging a notice from the energy regulator in its probe of payments received via a Centrelink direct debit scheme, after AGL was fined $25 million for overcharging welfare recipients.

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Class actions pile up against 3M
Class Actions 2025-01-22 3:24 pm By Sam Matthews

3M is now facing two class actions in Victoria, after being hit with a case on behalf of ADF members who claim they suffered hearing loss from using defective combat earplugs.

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Bakers Delight challenges reverse onus finding in Fair Work case
Employment 2025-01-22 5:24 pm By Sam Matthews

Bakers Delight has filed a challenge to a finding that it was subject to a statutory reverse onus aimed at employers, in a Fair Work Ombudsman underpayments case against a franchisee.

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Appeals court won’t revive defamation claims against AFP commander
Defamation 2025-01-22 11:11 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A Melbourne couple whose defamation claims against an AFP commander were thrown out by a jury has had their appeal rejected.

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New class action says 3M sold hazardous PFAS products
Class Actions 2025-01-21 11:48 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Chemical manufacturer 3M is facing a class action alleging it sold products containing hazardous materials known as PFAS without disclosing the risks they posed. 

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Legal fees to eat up more than half of COVID-19 class action settlement
Class Actions 2025-01-21 10:22 pm By Sam Matthews

Legal fees will eat up more than half of a $3.5 million settlement reached in a class action over deaths at a NSW aged care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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