Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has taken his first step to limit the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) by stripping its powers “to the bare legal minimum” and introducing an interim building code. Read more

An employer cannot engineer an end point to collective bargaining, to enable it safely to make a direct pay offer to employees without it being an unlawful inducement to bypass collective bargaining, simply by describing the last offer rejected by the union as its “best and final” offer.  A tribunal may still conclude that continued … Read more

As of August 2022, the EU Directive 2019/1152 on “transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union (Working Conditions Directive)” will be transposed into German law. This is intended to make the specific terms and conditions of employment even more transparent for the individual employee. The implementation takes place through the extension of the … Read more

Ça y est … French works councils now formally have a potentially important new and official role as actors in environmental issues within the Company. Following the enactment of the Law on Climate (Loi n° 2021-1104, 22 August 2021) companies will now have to include specific information and/or consultation of the works council on environmental … Read more

2021 has been another turbulent year in the employment, industrial relations and safety space in Australia. We’re proud to have worked with our clients on some of their most challenging people issues including the development of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace, and underpayments. As we move into 2022 … Read more

The Supreme Court has ruled that a unionised employer’s direct offer of new terms to workers will not be an unlawful inducement to opt out of collective bargaining, provided the collective bargaining process has been exhausted. In Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley the employer made two separate offers directly to workers after its offer had been … Read more

Radical upheavals in working life are taking hold at a global level as remote and hybrid working leave lasting changes across industries in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In response, employers are more inclined to advocate about geopolitical and social issues, use technology to manage and monitor the new ways of working, and adopt … Read more

The Court of Appeal has held that Deliveroo riders do not fall within the scope of the right to form and join a trade union under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (and therefore domestic law did not need to be construed to give the riders Article 11 rights). The Court confirmed … Read more