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Sydney's ongoing COVID-19 lockdown has created "logistical" difficulties delaying the release of a long awaited judgment in the ACCC's consumer law case against collapsed private college Phoenix Institute, which was accused of misleading students through the marketing of its courses.
A controversial announcement by Victorian-based fruit and vegetable processor SPC that it will mandate COVID-19 vaccines for all of its 450 onsite workers could face legal challenges on several grounds.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed court action against a multi-million dollar Western Australian biotech company, alleging it made several misleading representations to the market during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australian businesses have been urged to double check that their casual work contracts reflect a "true casual engagement" and ensure workers are properly classified following a landmark High Court ruling on casual worker classification.
The law firm that's running seven class actions challenging the 'casualisation' of mine workers says the cases still have a way forward despite suffering a "disappointing setback" from the High Court's finding that a Glencore mine worker was a casual employee because he worked on an "assignment-to-assignment" basis.
The High Court has found casual employees who work regular shifts are not entitled to paid annual, personal and compassionate leave under the Fair Work Act, putting the fate of seven class actions by casual miners in question.
A class action over Melbourne's public housing lockdown during its second COVID-19 wave in July last year will continue after the lawyer previously running the case was stripped of her practicing certificate.
A judge and former Channel 7 journalist has disqualified herself from hearing a case against a bankrupt businessman after finding a “reasonable observer” might think she personally believed allegations levelled against him in a Today Tonight program.
Qantas has lost a case brought by the Transport Workers Union that challenged the airline’s decision to axe 2,000 staff and replace them with “insecure” labour hire workers, with a judge finding Qantas boss Andrew David outsourced ground operations partly to prevent employees engaging in industrial action.
The Victorian Government has told a judge the COVID-19 restrictions imposed during its extended lockdown last year did not infringe on the freedom of political communication, as trial kicked off in a protestor's lawsuit challenging the stay-at-home orders.