Convenience store chain On The Run has filed a bid for law firm Adero Law to take down surveys published on its website allegedly aimed at collecting registration data from group members in an underpayment class action against the company.
A $400 million class action brought by Shine Lawyers against a major Telstra and Foxtel contractor will be stayed after the company was placed into administration three months out from trial.
Victoria’s Workcover has sued Crown and its major shareholder James Packer to recoup the compensation insurance it paid to a security guard who was allegedly assaulted by Packer on New Year’s Eve 2015.
The High Court on Friday denied special leave to three unions representing Qantas workers that sought to challenge a Federal Court ruling for the airline in a dispute over the operation of last year’s COVID-19 JobKeeper wage subsidy.
With roots in middle-class Canberra, Adero Law’s managing director Rory Markham takes pride in his role reinvigorating the industrial relations class action and putting pressure on companies to pay their staff on time and in full.
Deloitte has agreed to settle a $3.8 million lawsuit brought by a partner that challenged the accounting firm’s mandatory retirement policy.
Oracle has settled a lawsuit brought by a former account director who claimed he was fired for making complaints about one of his superiors who allegedly told him he had “zero EQ” and “an innate ability to annoy and anger people”.
Sacked climate skeptic professor Peter Ridd brought his case challenging his dismissal by James Cook University to the High Court on Wednesday, with a lawyer for Ridd telling the justices that his sacking was unlawful because intellectual freedom was a “foundational’ principle that could not be subordinated to the university’s code of conduct.
Victorian public healthcare provider Peninsula Health has hit back at an underpayments class action brought by junior doctors, saying it was up to them to seek authorisation and payment for any overtime hours worked.
Supermarket giant Woolworths has been hit with regulatory action by the Fair Work Ombudsman after it admitted to shortchanging thousands of full-time salaried managers to the tune of $390 million.