The Commerce Commission’s grocery crusade continues, with Foodstuffs South Island its latest legal target over alleged “far-reaching anti-competitive conduct”.
A Southland seafood company has been fined $39,000 for biosecurity breaches involving illegally moving thousands of oysters and mussels and putting the iconic Bluff oyster fishery at risk.
The government’s replacement for the Holidays Act, the Employment Leave Bill, has passed its third and final reading.
A Thames Four Square and its owner have been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay $44,000 in penalties after making two migrant workers pay a total of $120,000 in premiums for their jobs.
“We’re focusing our resources on investigations and enforcement work that puts RDPs under the microscope,” Grocery Commissioner Pierre van Heerden said.
Rockit Global has secured a significant legal victory in China, achieving a first-instance judgement in a Plant Variety Rights infringement case.
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Scott Technology is set to face charges from the government’s health and safety regulator over the death of an employee in a workplace accident last year.
The government is bringing forward a Fair Trading Amendment Bill which will introduce tougher penalties for misleading pricing.
The Woolworths and Coles court cases could effectively set the rules for what “truth in advertising” means for every retailer in Australia, says law professor Jeannie Marie Paterson.
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Greenpeace Aotearoa is claiming victory over dairy co-operative Fonterra, after coming to an out of court settlement in its lawsuit alleging misleading packaging on the Anchor brand butter.
