Published 23 February 2021 Independent Education Union of Australia v The Peninsula School T/A Peninsula Grammar School [2021] FCCA 115 In Independent Education Union of Australia v The Peninsula School T/A Peninsula Grammar School [2021] FCCA 115 (IEU v PGS) the Fair Work Commission (the FWC) held that employees had been unlawfully stood down from […]

Published 17 February 2021 Facts In November 2019, Helensburgh Coal Pty Ltd (Helensburgh Coal) had entered into a service agreement with a conveyer belt contractor called Mentser. The service agreement provided that Mentser would undertake belt cleaning and improvement work at the Metropolitan Coal Mine (the Mine) and the contract was to commence in April 2020, […]

Published 12 February 2021 The Applicant was receiving JobKeeper payments of $750 per week which was approximately $475 more than his average weekly earnings before he began receiving JobKeeper. The respondent, a labour hire agency that provides ‘front of house’ staff in the hospitality industry, had written to its employees, including the Applicant, on multiple […]

Published 4 February 2021 Crispe v Bank of Queensland Limited [2021] FCCA 115 In Crispe v Bank of Queensland Limited [2021] FCCA 115 the Federal Circuit Court heard on an interlocutory application to strike out portions of a Form 2 lodged by Mr Crispe (the Applicant). The Applicant had brought an unfair dismissal claim against […]