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A second competition lawsuit brought against NSW Ports could be stayed or consolidated with a case launched by the competition regulator over an agreement to privatise Port Botany and Port Kembla, a court heard Tuesday.
Unions have called for urgent legislative reform after the Fair Work Ombudsman declined to take compliance action against Uber, finding that the ride-share giant's drivers were independent contractors, not employees, under Australian law.
NSW Ports is facing a new lawsuit over an allegedly anti-competitive agreement entered into with the NSW state government for the privatisation of Port Botany and Port Kembla, which is the subject of a separate case brought by the competition regulator.
Indonesian national airline Garuda has been slapped with a $19 million penalty in the ACCC's decade-long global cartel case over air cargo price-fixing, bringing the total penalties won by the competition regulator over the cartel to $132.5 million.
UK-based building products giant Hill & Smith Holdings wants to drag a Singaporean entity into its road safety patent dispute with Australian company Safe Barriers, whose directors are ex-employees of Hill & Smith.
A hearing scheduled for later this year in several class actions and an ACCC proceeding over allegations Volkswagen installed dual-mode software in diesel vehicles to cheat on emissions tests has been postponed, despite cries of prejudice from the consumer regulator.
Potential new entrants to a major freight terminal in Queensland will be "better protected" by a last-minute promise by the terminal's hopeful owner, Pacific National, than if the ACCC had succeeded in blocking the rail operator's proposed $205 million acquisition, according to the judge who dismissed the competition watchdog's case.
Melbourne-based civic compliance firm SARB Management Group wants to put the brakes on a case brought by tech company Vehicle Monitoring Systems over a patented method for detecting vehicles, in a dispute it says was finalised in a settlement reached almost five years ago.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has suffered a major defeat in its challenge to Pacific National's proposed $205 million acquisition of competitor Aurizon's Queensland freight terminal, with a judge saying he was appeased by a last-minute promise from Pacific that it would not block third parties from accessing the terminal.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has opened a review into the proposed $350 million acquisition of a unit of global agribusiness GrainCorp by storage and handling specialist ANZ Terminals.