Category: Industrial & Employment Law
Industrial Manslaughter – No One Is Above The Law
In a significant win for good sense and workers’ protections, Queensland now has Industrial Manslaughter laws.
QIRC: Brisbane City Council can’t act unilaterally and determine who isn’t part of negotiations
Hall Payne Lawyers along with the ETU, CFMEU, and AMWU representing workers at Brisbane City Council have successfully stopped Brisbane City Council from acting unilaterally from putting an agreement out…
Supreme Court upholds peaceful assembly in support of enterprise bargaining campaign
In a test of Queensland’s laws around peaceful assemblies, Queensland’s Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by Glencore to stop Union members exercising their democratic and industrial rights. The CFMEU…
Hall Payne Wins Unfair Dismissal protection for Tasmanian Government casuals
After 6 years of dedicated service, Ms Assiri, a nurse and a single mum, who was also caring for her elderly mother was given devastating news – she would not…
A Position Description Doesn’t Determine Union Membership
A recent full bench decision of the Fair Work Commission has determined that it is more than just a person’s position description that determines a person’s primary purpose of employment….
Federal Court clarifies the meaning of “organising” in respect of industrial action
Until recently the word ‘organising’ in an industrial relations context has been widely used but not defined. In a recent decision from the Federal Court of Australia, Justice White said…
After facing deregistration, Hall Payne helps NT teacher keep his job
An NT teacher faced deregistration after an inquiry into his private life. Hall Payne successfully defended the matter, helping the teacher keep his job.
Is it true? Or did you read it in the Courier Mail?
Hall Payne develops a novel legal strategy to obtain documents leaked to the Courier Mail and how they got them in the first place. News Limited also had to pay…
Win for QNMU members, Court finds no irregularity in ANMF election
In a win for QNMU and ANMF members, the Federal Court has ruled there were no irregularities in the 2015 ANMF election for the position of Federal President and Federal…
Fair Work Commission highlights the need for proper, clear drafting of agreements
The recent decision of the Full Bench in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in Kentz Pty Ltd v Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of…
QIRC accepts Direction after Inaccurate Training amounted to Unreasonable Management Action
The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission has accepted that an employer’s conduct surrounding inaccurate No Go Zone training was unreasonable management action that caused miner’s injury.
Court finds no reasonable prospect of success as ABCC case dropped
The Federal Court has found in favour of the CFMEU, with yet another ABCC case dropped after it was deemed they had no reasonable prospects of success. In October 2016…