Business Advice

How can we regulate AI within existing legal frameworks to reduce undesirable behaviours and assign legal responsibility for autonomous actions of AIs?

Immediation, a digital conflict resolution platform designed with small businesses in mind, has collapsed into administration after securing millions of dollars of investor funding.

The FWC found that there was a valid reason for dismissal and the employee was given an opportunity to respond but that the process followed was deficient.

Businesses should expect that regulators – the ACCC in particular – will be active in enforcing and prosecuting the use of unfair contract terms.

With Christmas less than 90 days away, employers should be turning their minds to planning and confirming their Christmas/New Year shutdown arrangements.

Qantas acted unlawfully when it outsourced 1,700 ground staff during COVID-19 lockdowns because it effectively prevented affected workers from taking industrial action, the High Court has ruled, in a decision which upholds two prior court decisions against the airline.

Legislation imposing significant penalties on individuals and organisations for using unfair terms in standard-forms contracts has come into effect.

ASIC is going after PayPal Australia over fee discrepancy terms in small business contracts, which it says are 'unfair'.

The Federal Court has rejected a $650 million compensation claim against Mercedes-Benz for replacing its traditional dealership model with a fixed-price, direct-to-customer agency model.

Proposed penalties of up to $1.1 million for individuals and $5.5 million for corporations were passed in the NSW parliament.

Small businesses are spending more than $1 million in legal fees to challenge decisions handed down by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), but an official reimbursement program offers "insufficient certainty" over what costs are actually covered, according to a new review by the tax office watchdog.

Federal court proceedings against Qantas have been lodged on behalf of customers whose flights were cancelled during COVID-19.