Marine towage giant Svitzer took adverse action against a port manager who was dismissed in the “snap decision” of an executive irritated by the manager’s lack of excitement when offered a lower-paid role as part of a restructure.
The government has announced new details of a $1.2 billion reserve of critical minerals required to manufacture batteries, semiconductors and military equipment, ahead of treasurer Jim Chalmers’ G7 meeting in the US this week.
A GE unit has been hit with a $400,000 penalty after admitting it failed to comply with greenhouse gas reporting obligations for four years.
An appeals court has upheld a ruling that said “like diamonds, easements are forever”, finding users of the Unley Shopping Centre do not have right of way over a council carpark and access point adjoining the Adelaide shopping centre.
A former Holden dealer has lost a $9 million suit alleging General Motors misleadingly represented that it was “100% committed” to the line a few years before it decided to discontinue the brand.
A sublessee of an eight acre agricultural property in Austral has failed in his bid for nearly $500,000 in compensation after his crop was destroyed when he refused to vacate.
A judge has ordered the administrator for two class actions over PFAS contamination that settled for $153 million to pay the leftover funds to group members rather than to charities, saying it was not appropriate “to go around making donations”.
A Dubai-based investor is seeking to vary “punitive” freezing orders won by a brokerage firm that claims he failed to repay a $10.7 million (US$7.2 million) debt over a “highly unusual” airport investment proposal.
The University of NSW has been hit with a $211,200 penalty after admitting to “systemic” underpayments of casual staff at its business school.
A tribunal has ordered a Queensland solicitor to pay $30,000 for advertising personal injury services, up from the $2,000 penalty the lawyer agreed to pay, saying it was “concerning” the lawyer claimed ignorance of a breach of the law.
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