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Keldote Pty Ltd v Riteway Transport Pty Ltd ([2008] FMCA 1167)
by James Williamson LLB, BA
Industrial Law — Unfair Contracts
Three truckers have successfully used the Commonwealth’s Independent Contractors Act 2006 to review their ”unfair” contracts with an interstate trucking firm.
The case is significant because it is the first action demonstrating the workability of legislation which formed [...]
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We will see Labor’s substantive workplace relations legislation tabled in parliament during the week beginning November 24, with Deputy PM & WR Minister Julia Gillard having revealed some of the details of the legislation this afternoon (November 14).
As reported in the Workforce Daily news service on November 11, the Committee on Industrial Legislation (COIL) [...]
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Workforce is Australia’s longest-running independent source for industrial relations news, having been published since 1974. It delivers daily news to your inbox including on the latest wage developments, court and tribunal outcomes, industrial action, legislative change and expert legal commentary.
Your electronic subscription to Workforce includes four daily editions per [...]
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We will see Labor’s substantive workplace relations legislation tabled in parliament during the week beginning November 24, with Deputy PM & WR Minister Julia Gillard having revealed some of the details of the legislation this afternoon (November 14).
As reported in the Workforce Daily news service on November 11, the Committee on Industrial Legislation (COIL) [...]
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The past 10 years has been a very “benevolent” time for employers in the IR arena but “that will change” under Labor’s Forward with Fairness system, with employers having to spend more time and money on employee relations strategies, AMMA [...]
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Aust’s “very high operational tempo” and concurrent deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Timor and the Solomon Islands have led to increased workloads across the ADF. In the latest Defence Attitude Survey, a “sizeable proportion” of [...]
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Of 70,000 workplace agreements lodged with the Workplace Authority since March 28 this year, 10,000 were invalidly lodged. Workplace Authority director Barbara Bennett told Senate Estimates on Oct 23 many agreements lodged since the new [...]
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Five young women competed on Oct 21 for the fourth annual McCallum Medal in Sydney, judged by a panel chaired by the award’s namesake Professor Ron McCallum, Blake Dawson Waldron Professor of Industrial Law. McCallum said he was very impressed by [...]
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The 2008 McCallum Medal Presentation Competition (organised by the NSW Young Lawyers Industrial and Employment Law Committee and sponsored by Thomson Reuters, The College of Law and Clayton Utz) was held on Tuesday 21 October 2008. The judging panel consisted of Mr Joe Catanzariti (Partner, Clayton Utz), The Honourable Justice Marks (Member, Industrial Relations Commission) and [...]
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Disputes over restraint of trade clauses in employment contracts are common but in the past 30 years the clauses have become more enforceable, McCallum Medal contestant Allison Benson said last night.
While the “sanctity of the contract” was strictly [...]
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The Fed Govt has warned it would “not further proceed” with the Safe Work Aust Bill if the Oppn continued with its “folly” of supporting Senate amendments to it. “The govt says that these amendments should be disagreed to,” Dep PM & WR Minister Julia Gillard said in Parliament on Oct 20. “The govt will [...]
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Ford Australia’s chief exec Marin Barela yesterday afternoon delivered the news the industry and Workforce was expecting. Another 450 voluntary redundancies by Christmas and five more days of production shutdown before the end of the year, with the [...]
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