Employment Notes

UK: Court of Appeal rules that employers can make one-off offer to workers to agree new term where collective bargaining exhausted

Australia: Industry Bargaining - the Impossible Dream?

Australia: Federal Election Reforms

Malaysia: Proposed changes to the Industrial Relations Act 1967

Malaysia's Ministry of Human Resources has recently proposed amendments to the Industrial Relations Act 1967 ("IRA") which, if introduced, would result …

Australia: Fair Work Amendment (Repeal Four Yearly Review and other Measures) Bill 2017 passes

Late on Wednesday 5 December 2018, the Fair Work Amendment (Repeal Four Yearly Review and Other Measures) Bill 2017 (Bill) was passed by both houses of …

Australia: Victorian State Election update: Labor is re-elected for a second term - what does this mean for industrial relations in Victoria over the next four years?

The Victorian state election on Saturday 24 November 2018 was characterised by large swings, with the Liberal party losing several previously safe seats …

Australia: Latest Data on Enterprise Bargaining Wages Trends - December 2017 quarter

The ‘Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining’ report for October-December 2017 was released by the Department of Jobs and Small Business in the first …

Australia: Bargaining under the Fair Work Act - our 2018 edition

This week we launch the 2018 edition of Bargaining under the Fair Work Act and highlight findings from our recent Australian bargaining survey. Click …

Australia: Latest data on enterprise bargaining wages trends - September 2017 quarter

The ‘Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining’ report for July-September 2017 was released by the Department of Employment on 10 January 2018. If you have …

Australia: Employers get the good oil on strikes and coercion

In Esso Australia Pty Ltd v The Australian Workers Unions [2017] HCA 54, the High Court of Australia held that: Where a person contravenes an order in …

Australia: Latest data on enterprise bargaining wages trends – June 2017 Quarter

The ‘Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining’ report for April-June 2017 was released by the Department of Employment on Friday. This data is a valuable …

France: The Loi Travail - Briefing 2

This briefing summarises the Macron reforms to consolidate works councils and other employee representative bodies, through the ordonnance on "the …