At the end of a 100-hour week,Dr Amireh Fakhouri was too exhausted to drive home. Now she has helped win record backpay for 20,000 colleagues.
It is the fifth-largest class action settlement in Australian legal history and comes after a protracted five-year legal battle.
Employers have been put on notice as a bill criminalising wage theft passes parliament in the same week McDonald’s and KFC were hit with class action lawsuits.
Thousands of current and former McDonald’s staff across six years were asked to do ‘pre-shift checks’ and tasks after work for no pay,the union is arguing.
Laws that existed until the 1970s,ostensibly to protect Aboriginal people,instead resulted in hardship and exploitation,WA Premier Roger Cook said.
A new class action alleges IG Markets sold high-risk products to consumers without adequate disclosures. The firm is contesting the claim.
Optus faces a class action lawsuit from more than 100,000 of its current and former customers after a cyberattack exposed the personal details of millions of Australians last year.
Defence doesn’t deny that the woman leading the class action endured chronic pelvic pain and abnormal bleeding resulting in a hysterectomy,but says the device wasn’t the cause.
The Essure device was touted as a radical breakthrough for women who had finished having children. But 1000 of them will on Tuesday go to court saying it caused them pain and suffering.
Given the time and stress it has caused I think many will feel that the squeeze wasn’t worth the juice.
Tony Burke confirmed government lawyers would intervene in a legal stoush to back the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association.