Award modernisation: rational or modern?
Contributed by Andrew Herbert of Inns of Court, Brisbane, May 2008. Introduction In March 2008 the Federal Government introduced transitional amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (the Act)...
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The Fed Court has imposed $15,000 in penalties against Zinifex Australia Ltd after the company admitted applying duress in connection with AWAs for labour hire workers from two different companies. In...
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The Fed Court has reduced a penalty imposed on WA builder Hanssen Pty Ltd for lodging unapproved AWAs, despite upholding a federal magistrate’s finding the company “engaged in deliberate conduct to...
View ArticleFair Work watchdog announces more back-pay victories
The Fair Work Ombudsman continues to help workers recover underpaid entitlements from their employers. Since 1 July 2009, The Fair Work Ombudsman has announced a number of successful actions for...
View ArticleCasenote: The continuing controversy regarding implied terms in contracts of...
In a recent decision of the Federal Court in Van Efferen v CMA Corporation Ltd [2009] FCA 597, Justice Tracey considered a claim for damages for a breach of an Australian Workplace Agreement and also...
View ArticleCasenote: Unlawful industrial action pays the price
Draffin v Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union [2009] FCAFC 120 (10 September 2009) A Full Court of the Federal Court comprising Goldberg, Jacobson and Tracey JJ has overturned a decision of...
View ArticleThomson Reuters: Commentaries on Forward with Fairness and Fair Work
The newest commentary on workplace relations, Navigating the Fair Work Laws by Forsyth, Gostencnik, Parker and Roach, publishes next month (Nov 2010). Consequently, the price of Transition to Forward...
View ArticleRidout and Howes disagree on reasons for productivity drops
Speaking at the Workforce Conference in Sydney on September 5, AiGroup Chief Executive Heather Ridout blamed the Fair Work Act for causing a drop in productivity and argued that there needed to be a...
View ArticleMid-Year Sale: Commentaries on Forward with Fairness and Fair Work at 60%...
Since the defeat of the Howard Government’s Work Choices policy at the 2007 Federal election, Thomson Reuters has been proud to publish titles that practitioners could turn to in times of changing...
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