The federal government will pay $2 million to settle a human rights class action brought by Indigenous Australians from the Ngaanyatjarraku community in Western Australia over allegedly discriminatory requirements for access to social security benefits.
BHP Billiton has resolved a case by an employee who claimed the company breached the Fair Work Act by sacking her for alleged social media harassment of a co-worker who failed to self isolate after an interstate trip at the start of the first COVID-19 wave.
BHP has denied it fired a mine worker for harassing a co-worker on social media for his apparent failure to self isolate on returning from a trip interstate at the start of the first COVID-19 wave, instead claiming she was terminated for failing to follow social media guidelines and because she had a history of violating rules.
A mine worker employed at BHP’s Olympic Dam is suing the company after she was sacked for allegedly harassing a co-worker on social media for their apparent failure to self isolate on returning from a trip interstate at the start of the first wave of COVID-19 cases in Australia.
Mobile garbage bin manufacturer Mastec Australia can access documents from a group of city councils and waste management firms to calculate damage it suffered from rival Trident Plastics unlawful copying of its wheelie bin design.
Wheelie bin maker Mastec Australia needs a broad range of evidence to calculate the damages resulting from the misuse of its bin designs by rival Trident Plastics, a court heard Monday.