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Fight over competing KFC class actions not yet on the menu
Employment 2023-12-04 3:37 pm By Sam Matthews

The claims in two class actions alleging fast food giant KFC denied workers rest breaks are substantially similar but not identical, a court has heard, […]

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Rival class action to be filed against KFC over rest breaks
Class Actions 2023-11-17 3:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A leading plaintiff law firm will file a competing class action against KFC before the end of the year alleging the fast food giant denied […]

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Union succeeds in excluding members from McDonald’s class action
Class Actions 2023-11-17 11:27 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A union has partially won a bid to exclude thousands of current and former members from a class action against McDonald’s, after losing a challenge […]

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Journalist claims PTSD from bushfire reporting in suit against Ten
Employment 2023-10-23 10:33 pm By Sam Matthews

Ten wants to stay a sex discrimination claim brought by journalist Tegan George in light of separate personal injury proceedings seeking damages from the broadcaster […]

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Judges have power to make settlement CFOs, says Full Court
Class Actions 2023-10-12 11:36 am By Cindy Cameronne

The Full Federal Court has answered a question vexing the court for the past four years, ruling that class action judges have the power to […]

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Settlement CFO ruling another landmark in class action development
Analysis 2023-10-12 11:34 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Full Federal Court’s finding that the High Court did not extinguish the power of judges to make common fund orders on approval of class […]

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Full Court shoots down ‘misconceived’ bid to undermine Fair Work class actions
Employment 2023-10-12 4:51 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has rejected a union’s bid to throw out an employee class action against McDonald’s after the Full Federal Court found that employee class […]

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Are settlement CFOs OK? Full Court to finally have its say
Class Actions 2023-10-11 11:19 pm By Christine Caulfield

With bated breath class action litigators and funders have waited for this day, when the Full Federal Court decides the question of power to make […]

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Full Court to decide whether employment class actions ever allowed
Employment 2023-03-09 6:37 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The question of whether judges have the power to hear employment cases as representative proceedings is headed to the Full Court after a union raised […]

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Judge troubled by class action firm’s costs, union’s delay in rival McDonald’s cases
Employment 2023-03-09 11:04 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge is weighing up a law firm’s high legal costs against a union’s delay in a stoush over who should run a case against […]

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