Pre-Fair Work agreement doesn’t avoid Fair Work obligations

By Alex Millman and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal January was not a good month for Merivale. The hospitality group, helmed by...

By Alex Millman and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal January was not a good month for Merivale. The hospitality group, helmed by Justin Hemmes, saw its WorkChoices-era collective agreement terminated in a decision of the Fair Work Commission on 21 January 2019. After operating under this agreement since 2007, the business now...

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Employer Facing Significant Operational Costs after Old Agreement Terminated

Written by Victoria Hansen, Senior Workplace Advisor, and Lindsay Carroll, Legal Practice Director In a decision made last week, the...

Written by Victoria Hansen, Senior Workplace Advisor, and Lindsay Carroll, Legal Practice Director In a decision made last week, the Fair Work Commission terminated the collective agreement of a yoghurt shop chain that had been in operation for nearly 14 years. This decision highlights how much of an impact termination...

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An enterprise agreement was killed by the difference between ‘is’ and ‘was’

By Alexander Millman and Angela Szczepanski, NRA Legal  National Union of Workers v Sigma Company Limited t/a Sigma Healthcare ...

By Alexander Millman and Angela Szczepanski, NRA Legal  National Union of Workers v Sigma Company Limited t/a Sigma Healthcare FWCFB 3892 Last week, retail pharmacy group Sigma Healthcare took an industrial relations blow when the approval of its Sigma (Berrinba) Enterprise Agreement 2017 on 30 May 2017 was overturned on...

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