Regulation

The corporate watchdog is suing PayPal Australia, claiming the payment service company had an unfair term in its contract forms for small businesses.

The corporate regulator has alleged that between 2015 and 2022 Westpac didn't respond to financial hardship notices from 229 customers.

The Federal Government has lauded its planned industrial relations changes as world-leading, but new details of the proposed reform have been slammed by leading business groups.

The consumer watchdog is taking Qantas to court, alleging the airline continued to sell tickets for 8000 flights that had already been cancelled.

Assay lab operator Jinning has been slapped with a $30,000 fine after four of its staff recorded high lead levels in their blood.

Western Australia’s chief justice has lambasted the quarrel over legal costs in a court dispute between Peter Hood and Tom Henderson-backed MAK Water and its former staff.

The state government’s Building and Energy department has released its findings from an investigation over pipe leaks across Perth homes, with the results welcomed by builder BGC.

A collapsed father and son building company has been hit with a $25,000 fine for carrying out unauthorised work and demanding premature payments for work on four Perth properties.

A former director of a demolition company has been convicted in court, being disqualified from acting in the management of corporations for five years.

BHP-owned Oz Minerals has agreed to pay $9.3 million in fines after self-reporting employees bribed foreign officials to obtain mining rights in Cambodia.

Australia’s financial investigations watchdog has remained tight-lipped about the decision to investigate Perth Mint during a federal hearing into its probe of the scandal-plagued organisation

Shark Bay seashell miner L’Haridon Bight Mining has been ordered to pay an increased $48,000 fine after WorkSafe successfully appealed the original sentence over a workplace injury.

Australia’s corporate regulator laid 125 criminal charges and 19 individuals have been disqualified or removed from directing companies in the first half of 2023.

WA’s resources sector has been put on notice mandates will be on the cards should the industry fail to crack down on workplace behaviour through guidelines and best practice measures introduced in the wake of a damning FIFO sexual harassment probe.

Two WA building contractors have been fined over falsifying home indemnity insurance certificates in building applications for projects in Karrinyup and Hazelmere.

Peter Hood and Tom Henderson-backed company MAK Water has been caught up in legal proceedings against its former employees, over allegations of breaching commercial information.

Firms pushing dodgy consumer contracts have been put on notice with tough new penalties which will see them on the hook for at least $50 million for misleading or unfair behaviour.

Two subsidiaries of Facebook owner Meta have been fined $20 million for collecting user data through a privacy-focused app without proper disclosure information would be used for market research.

BHP will seek to overturn a requirement for workers to be asked if they want to work public holidays before they are rostered on.

A federal court judge has determined Crown Resorts is to pay the $450 million penalty put forward by AUSTRAC and the casino operator for its raft of breaches of Australia’s anti-money laundering laws.

A shed and patio business affiliated with former West Coast Eagles player Andrew Donnelly has attracted 60 complaints from customers since March 2022, according to Consumer Protection.

Controversial builder Modco Residential allegedly owes more than $28,000 to a recruitment firm that has launched legal action to wind-up the company.

Collapsed builder Firm Construction has been fined $600,000 over serious injuries suffered by two workers during the building collapse at the Hotel Rottnest redevelopment in 2020.

A Perth building company and its sole director have been fined almost $250,000 after conducting unauthorised and botched work on four properties.

The financial services regulator has fined BNK Banking Corporation $247,500 after the Perth-based digital bank breached its data reporting obligations.

The names of eight sacked partners from embattled constancy firm PwC have been revealed as the investigation into the tax leak scandal continues.

The corporate watchdog has warned consumers about previously sanctioned company director David Alan Zohar’s investment promotions for several exploration ventures.

Former Perth financial adviser John Talbot Wertheimer has been permanently banned from providing financial services or engaging in any credit activities.

Crown Perth employees have received back pay up to $55,000 to correct the resort and casino operator's underpayment of more than $1 million to staff in WA and Melbourne over a six-year period.

Troubled builder Modco Residential is facing a court action lodged by a recruitment firm seeking to wind-up the company.

Car servicing retailer mycar Tyre & Auto, which has 25 shops in Perth, has been fined $1 million by the communications watchdog after the company breached Australian spam laws.

A Perth court has fined national construction group Lendlease over a workplace safety breach during the $223.6 million redevelopment of the Campbell Barracks in Swanbourne.