UNDERPAYMENT class actions against Coles and Woolworths are still in the courts and heading to trial, despite last year's retrospective laws on casual labour and a subsequent High Court decision supposedly killing the push that employers criticised as "double dipping".
As the Newcastle Herald reported yesterday, the Federal Court made "discontinuance" orders on April 29 for law firm Adero's case at Mount Arthur case, and on May 2 for the Mining and Energy Union's case against labour-hire firm WorkPac.
