A FOUR-YEAR campaign to win hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from coal companies over their use of "permanent casual" labour-hire workers has come to an end with two key cases being formally discontinued in the Federal Court.
The outcome is not unexpected after One Nation voted with the Coalition on March 26 last year to allow a retrospective change to the definition of "casual employee" in the Fair Work Act, followed by a High Court ruling on August 4 that found in favour of labour-hire firm WorkPac in the long-running Rossato case.
