The Fair Work Commission has refused a bid by an employer group to halt the merger of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and two other unions while a challenge is heard.
Biogen said Thursday it will pull its multiple sclerosis drug Zinbryta in Australia, nearly two weeks after the biotech company issued a worldwide withdrawal of the drug following reports of encephalitus in Europe.
The ACCC wants the public to weigh in on Saputo’s offer to sell its Koroit dairy plant in Victoria to win the regulator’s blessing for its $1.3 billion tie-up with Murray Goulburn.
The consumer regulator has launched enforcement action against Equifax, accusing the credit reporting company of duping vulnerable customers into paying for credit reports that were only as good as its free reports.
Australia’s communications regulator released new proposed rules today for telcos on handling consumer complaints about migration to the National Broadband Network.
A BHP subsidiary acted unreasonably when it failed to consider alternative work for an incapacitated employee and instead sent him home without pay for three weeks, a Fair Work Commissioner has found.
Volkswagen cars equipped with a software fix implemented in the wake of the emissions scandal are still emitting 400 percent more noxious emissions on road than in lab tests, according to a new study by the Australian Automobile Association.
ASIC put banks and other lenders on notice Thursday that unfair lending contracts aimed at small business will be an enforcement priority for the securities regulator.
Australia’s largest banks are weak when it comes to offering competitive prices on residential mortgages, Australia’s consumer regulator said Thursday in the first review undertaken by its newly formed financial services unit.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said Thursday that Pacific National’s proposed acquisitions of Aurizon’s Queensland intermodal freight haulage business and intermodal rail terminal at Acacia Ridge in Brisbane raises significant competition concerns.