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CFMEU hit with lawsuit for taking action over DP World automation
Employment 2020-01-29 3:03 pm By Miklos Bolza

The CFMEU is facing a lawsuit by four units of DP World Australia Group after refusing to accept the terms of four proposed enterprise agreements unless the stevedoring giant guaranteed it would not automate its terminals.

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Facebook, Instagram to be barred from locking out users of Aussie social media startup
Competition & Consumer Protection 2020-01-29 2:20 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge is expected to issue a temporary injunction Thursday barring Facebook and Instagram from blocking users who are customers of a Melbourne-based social media startup that has accused the companies of trying to quash competition.

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Top NRL player agent Sam Ayoub wins case against protege who poached 18 players
Anthony Delaney Lawyers 2020-01-28 10:38 pm By Christine Caulfield

Veteran NRL player agent Sam Ayoub has won his case against his former protege and another employee who left his Ultra Management Sports agency in 2017 and took 18 players with them.

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Sydney financial advisor hit with $14.5M class action by Chinese investors
Christopher Freeman 2020-01-28 4:11 pm By Miklos Bolza

A Sydney-based financial advisory firm has been hit with a class action by a group of Chinese investors over a property investment and visa scheme that allegedly saw group members lose $14.5 million in funds.

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Deliveroo defends against wage theft case, says rider admitted he was a contractor
Employment 2020-01-22 7:06 pm By Christine Caulfield

Online food delivery platform Deliveroo has defended its business model in a wage theft case brought by a former delivery rider, saying he acknowledged he was an independent contractor when he signed up.

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Crown wins challenge to ‘impermissible’ order letting jailed staff talk to class action firm
Appeals 2020-01-22 3:56 pm By Miklos Bolza

Crown Resorts has successfully challenged a ruling allowing law firm Maurice Blackburn to communicate with 18 formerly jailed employees to gather evidence in its shareholder class action against the casino giant.

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Glencore unit does not owe injured workers unlimited personal leave, court says
Ashurst 2020-01-21 4:09 pm By Miklos Bolza

A subsidiary of mining giant Glencore has defeated a case brought by the CFMEU claiming it was obligated to pay unlimited amounts of personal leave to sick or injured employees.

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Ten says report on genital silicone injections not defamatory, in public interest
Adrian Anderson 2020-01-21 2:50 pm By Christine Caulfield

Defending a defamation case brought by the head of a group of gay ‘pups’, Network Ten has argued that a report about an Australian man who died from genital silicone injections was substantially true and in the public interest.

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Trivago misled hotel booking customers to boost income, court finds
ACCC 2020-01-21 11:48 am By Miklos Bolza

Hotel booking aggregator Trivago misled consumers about its cheapest price promise by arranging its listings according to payments it received instead of the actual hotel room price, a court has found.

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‘Worthless and unsaleable’: Accounting firm hit with class action over Guvera advice
Accounting 2020-01-20 2:07 pm By Miklos Bolza

Shareholders of collapsed music streaming platform Guvera have filed a class action against an accounting firm seeking to recoup their losses for the firm’s alleged negligence in promoting an investment opportunity in the failed tech company.

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