The Fair Work Commission has allowed a former Lovisa worker to file an unfair dismissal claim out of time, finding that an error by her lawyer constituted an exceptional circumstance.
Optus has been hit with a penalty of more than $826,000 after scammers exploited a vulnerability in its third-party verification system and stole $39,000 from customers’ bank accounts.
Underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths want to expand their claims to cover a longer time period, which would leave the supermarket giants with even bigger remediation bills than the $780 million estimated in the wake of a finding that underpayments cannot be set off.
Harvey Norman says it should be fined no more than $24 million for running misleading ads, urging a court not to punish it for “intemperate” remarks its founder made in the media about the legal system.
Westpac has paid back $50 million plus interest and super to 47,000 current and former staff who were underpaid over an 11-year period.
ASIC has lodged an appeal of a ruling that tossed its conflicted remuneration case against Freedom Insurance’s former boss and another executive over a sales incentive scheme.
ASIC on Thursday pushed for penalties totalling $85 million against Harvey Norman and Latitude Finance, after an appeals court found the retailer’s ads touting interest-free financing were misleading.
The trustee for super fund Cbus has agreed to pay a $23.5 penalty after admitting liability in the corporate regulator’s case over excessive delays in processing $20 million in death and disability claims.
The corporate cop has launched two new cases and sought approval to bring a third action over financial advice that led customers to sink hundreds of millions of dollars in retirement savings into the failed Shield and First Guardian investment funds.
John Holland and the CFMEU have voluntarily nixed agreements requiring the construction company to use certain labour hire businesses on two major projects in NSW, after the ACCC raised competition concerns.