Collapsed residential builder Babylon Homes and Construction has been fined $23,000 after it carried out work without a permit, supervisor or home indemnity insurance.
An electrical contractor has been fined $50,000 after failing to install safety devices when upgrading switchboards at three homes occupied by miners in the Pilbara.
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.
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.
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.