The lead applicant in an $84 million class action against labour hire company WorkPac has been given the green light to intervene in an appeal that will clarify the definition of casual work for Australian employers.
Electricity retailer Click Energy has been ordered to pay $900,000 in penalties for misleading consumers about discounts on their energy bills.
Labour hire company WorkPac has asked the court to dismiss an $84 million class action brought on behalf of thousands of casual mine workers alleging they were misclassified and denied annual leave and other entitlements.
Leading solar panel manufacturer Hanwha Q CELLS has filed a lawsuit against Norway-based solar energy company REC Solar for allegedly infringing its patented solar technology, less than two weeks after filing similar cases against China-based competitors JinkoSolar and LONGi Solar.
A judge has ordered directors of collapsed mining company Termite Resources to pay $7 million in damages after finding they breached their duty by distributing more than $46 million to its parent company and failing to maintain a cash reserve of at least $10 million.
Australia’s largest independent coal producer Whitehaven Coal Mining has been convicted and fined $38,500 after potentially harmful gas drifted from one of its mines across neighbouring farmland.
Trial in a shareholder class action against engineering company WorleyParsons will be heard by a new judge in late August, six months after it was unexpectedly vacated.
Mach Energy is fighting a second lawsuit by a former director alleging he is owed $13 million in shares under an equity incentive scheme based on the performance of the Mount Pleasant coal project acquired from Rio Tinto in 2016.
Viva Energy has been convicted and fined $100,000 for polluting Sydney Harbour after a marine fuel oil spill from a corroded pipe at the company’s Gore Bay terminal on New Year’s Eve three years ago.
Leading solar panel manufacturer Hanwha Q CELLS has launched a patent lawsuit against two of its biggest competitors for allegedly importing solar products into Australia that infringe its patented solar technology.