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Thiess loses appeal in unpaid wages class action
Mining services company Thiess has lost its challenge to a class action ruling which found the company had underpaid workers for time spent on the bus travelling home from a Pilbara-based liquefied natural gas processing plant owned by Woodside Energy.
Lush pays back $4.4M to underpaid employees
The Australian arm of multinational cosmetics company Lush has back-paid over 3,000 employees more than $4 million and entered into a "stringent" enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Insurer appeals ruling putting it on hook for Opal Tower coverage
Insurer Liberty Mutual is challenging its loss in a coverage dispute with construction company Icon Co over $31 million in losses stemming from Sydney's Opal Tower, whose residents were evacuated after cracks appeared in the tower's walls on Christmas Eve in 2018.
DocuSign not a valid form of termination, PwC director argues in Fair Work case
A PwC director who was terminated after suffering a back injury at work has sued the accounting giant claiming that her notice of termination was invalid because it was delivered through DocuSign.
Ex-Linchpin Capital director can’t put disqualification challenge on ice
A former director of defunct financial services company Linchpin Capital, who is facing a class action as well as civil penalty proceedings by ASIC, can't put the brakes on his challenge to a five-year disqualification order by the regulator.
Murray Goulburn’s former top execs banned from managing companies
Murray Goulburn's former managing director Gary Helou and chief financial officer Brad Hingle have been disqualified from heading up companies after they were found to have breached the Corporations Act for their role in the milk supplier's repeated failure to disclose an expected material decrease in the milk supplier's earnings guidance for 2016.
McDonald’s franchisee hit with $82,000 penalty for ‘systemic’ denial of drink and toilet breaks
A McDonald's franchisee has been ordered to pay $82,000 in penalties for systemically denying workers drink and toilet breaks and misleading them about their break entitlements, providing fuel for a class action investigation into the US fast food chain for allegedly denying workers rest breaks.
GetSwift’s mid-litigation relocation bid ‘not a good look’, judge says
A judge said Friday that a bid by last-mile logistics software firm GetSwift to relocate to Canada as it faces a potential $20 million civil penalty from ASIC and a $50 million class action was "not a good look".
Pfizer loses discovery lawsuit against Sandoz over Enbrel biosimilar
A judge has dismissed Pfizer's bid for preliminary discovery to pursue a possible patent infringement case against drug maker Sandoz over a generic version of its blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis biologic Enbrel.
‘Industrial activity’ under Fair Work Act doesn’t extend to spat over worksite amenities, court says
In an important ruling that confines the scope of "industrial activity" under the Fair Work Act, the Full Federal Court has overturned a $50,000 fine against the CFMEU and two officials for organising a work stoppage at a Brighton construction site that the union said needed a female toilet.