Re-establishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission, cutting penalty rates, privatising NSW electricity, and tightening controls on industrial action, are positions Martin Ferguson has supported in recent years. For a 40-year veteran of the labour movement, including serving as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and as a Minister in the Rudd Labor ...more
The Spring 2015 Part of the Workplace Review includes the following content: “Regulation of union ballots in Australia – a reflection” – Keith Harvey; “Sections 433 and 561 of the Corporations Act: Priority to payment of employee entitlements?” – John-Paul Redmond; “‘Bullying’ in common law litigation” – Lachlan Robison; as well as the following sections: Focus on Queensland: “Gramotnev v Queensland University of Technology” – Geraldine Dann; Interview: “Doing it his way: Martin Ferguson steps out of Labor’s shadow” – by Steven Andrew; Common Law and General Protections: “Identifying the prohibited reason for adverse action, rears its problematic head again” – Mark Caile and Dr Victoria Lambropoulos; Book Review: Hogs & Sybarites, “When We Were Young & Foolish” – reviewed by Ed Day; The Last Word; and Diary.
Posted in Update Summaries, Workplace Review (WR) | Tagged “court-controlled” ballots, accrued leave entitlements, anti-Communist, Australian Labor Party (ALP) conferences, Balla J, book review, bullying, Common Law and General Protections, common law litigation, Diary, Dr Victoria Lambropoulos, Ed Day, Editorial, employee entitlements, external administration, Focus on Queensland, Geraldine Dann, Gramotnev v Queensland University of Technology [2015] QCA 127, Interview, Jeffrey Phillips SC, John-Paul Redmond, Keith Harvey, Lachlan Robison, Lal v Australian Administrative Services Pty Ltd, Mark Caile, Martin Ferguson, negligence, priority of payment, prohibited reason for adverse action, receivership, regulation of union election ballots, ss 433 and 561 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), Steven Andrew, The Last Word, When We Were Young & Foolish, WR |
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