Energy Australia is not backing down in an industrial dispute over overtime pay for casual workers at its Yallourn Power Station, seeking leave to appeal a judge’s dismissal of its case and his ruling that it foot the unions’ entire legal bill.
The ACCC has set out its priorities for 2018, and bigger penalties for big business flouting competition laws is top of the agenda, the commission’s chief said Tuesday.
A Federal Court judge has ruled the lead applicant in a Maurice Blackburn-led class action by Indonesian farmers against PTTEP Australasia must foot its opponent’s legal bill, despite winning its bid to bring the case outside the limitations period.
Electricity prices in Australia have skyrocketed and its hurting Australians, the consumer regulator has said in a damning report that faults power companies for confusing customers and finding loopholes in the law.