The former communications chief for IOOF claims she was terminated after revealing she suffered from a mental disability and sought a less stressful role.
The corporate regulator has brought action against Allianz Australia alleging the insurer misled consumers who purhased travel insurance on Expedia websites by failing to disclose how premiums were calculated and selling policies to ineligible customers.
Shine Lawyers and the union representing Australia’s fast food workers are investigating a possible class action against McDonald’s for allegedly failing to provide employees with rest breaks.
Payday lenders Cigno and BHF Solutions are facing enforcement action by the corporate regulator alleging they breached the credit laws by lending to hundreds of thousands of consumers with a licence and charging $78 million in fees.
A judge has scrapped a proposed video link sought by Slater and Gordon to be included in an opt out notice to group members in a class action over alleged junk insurance sold by Westpac, saying the video had the “flavour” of promoting the proceeding.
A law firm that negotiated a $2.4 million settlement for Melbourne’s Barfly’s in a negligence suit against the Bourke Street cafe’s former solicitors is now in litigation itself against Barflys over unpaid fees, but a bid by the firm for the cafe to hand over $745,000 to the court in trust has fallen flat.
Former Leighton Holdings chief financial officer Peter Gregg has won his appeal of convictions last year over an alleged sham contract with a steel supplier, with an appeals court on Wednesday saying there had been a “substantial miscarriage of justice”.
Google has rejected claims by the ACCC that it tricked consumers into agreeing to expanded collection of their personal data, saying that it instead sought “explicit consent” from users through an “easy-to-understand opt-in consent mechanism”.
A union representing retail employees has taken discount supermarket chain Aldi to court for allegedly refusing to pay employees at one of its distribution centres for pre-shift work, saying Aldi had gone “from bad to worse” after also denying workers a pay rise.
A judge has approved a $7 million settlement in a class action against the directors of pharmaceutical company QRxPharma, only a third of which will go to group members, saying proportionality was not a basis for rejecting fees that were otherwise fair and reasonable.