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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
The EAT has ruled that words should be read into domestic legislation to ensure that employees are protected from detriment (as well as dismissal) for taking part in industrial action. Employers should take extra care when dealing with employees involved in strike action in future. The Trade Union Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 makes it … Read more
Background Today, the House of Representatives is expected to pass amendments to the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2021 (Bill) made in the Senate last Thursday night. What is changing? The only provisions left in the Bill after amendments following negotiation with the Senate cross-bench are those relating to casual … Read more
Happy New Year! Hopefully 2021 is a brighter and better one for all. Our first Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update of 2021 covers: the recent Supreme Court decision in Thailand, that found that forwarding confidential work documents to a personal email account amounted to disclosure, even though there was no evidence that the documents … Read more
In our latest podcast, our Employment and IR team reviewed some of the interesting aspects in the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020, following its release last week. We discuss the media reaction to date, the union demerger proposal, the impact of the changes to casual employees, criminal sanctions for … Read more
Fair Work Act changes for the COVID recovery Following a gestation of seven months, the Workplace Relations Reform: Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 has finally reached the Federal Parliament. In the cold light of day, and relative to the size and scope of the matters considered by the working … Read more
We know that ‘Project Life Agreements’ have previously been pursued by industry as a remedy to this issue, and calls for reform were supported by the Federal Government. But will the IR Working Groups reach agreement? Will we see this as a feature of the soon to be announced reforms? In our sixth article in … Read more
In our fifth article in our Workplace change for the COVID recovery series, Michael Gonski, Partner and Rommo Pandit, Senior Associate from our Sydney office; discuss the challenges faced by employers in complying with a complicated system of Australian employment laws. There have been a number of recent examples of large Australian corporates disclosing that … Read more
In our latest article in our Workplace change for the COVID recovery series, Natalie Gaspar, Partner from our Melbourne office; investigates the anticipated changes to Australia’s enterprise bargaining system. It is anticipated that the reform package will contain measures which seek to streamline the approval process by giving primacy to the bargained outcome. A welcome … Read more
