This article examines to what extent there is legacy of the Commission’s labour standards in the new legislated standards in the National Employment Standards and dismissal protection in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). The Commission’s ‘community standards’, mainly from ‘test cases’...

"This book addresses the transformations which have occurred in employment arrangements and practices in the Australian public sector over the past decade. Themes of contractualisation, privatisation and outsourcing are explored and critically examined, as well as influences of the industrial...

Responsibilities of employers under Federal and State laws to dismiss for proper reasons and in accordance with fair processes are substantially dismantled by the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth). Access to the unfair dismissal jurisdictions of industrial tribunals is...