Fair Work Legislation 2020—21

Fair Work Legislation 2020—21 contains federal workplace legislation fully consolidated to 7 July 2020 and is designed for use by practitioners, business professionals and students. It is an essential reference to the Fair Work regime, featuring annotations to key provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009, written and selected by General Editors Mark Rinaldi, Victoria Lambropoulos, Rohan Millar and Aaron Neal.

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Highlights

Legislation

The insertion of the new Part 6-4C into the Fair Work Act 2009
The commencement of the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020
Amendments to the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 as made by the Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Flexibility Measures) Act 2020

Articles

New articles of interest on the employment law impacts of COVID-19, legislative responses to it (including the new Part 6-4C of the Fair Work Act 2009) and Fair Work Commission decisions dealing with matters arising under the new provisions

JobKeeper and the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) – Workplace relations and legislative response to COVID-19 by Aaron Neal
Stand Down and the taking of Annual Leave under the Fair Work Act (Cth) before Coronavirus by Dr Victoria Lambropoulos

Important cases

Important cases in the areas of industrial action (Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union v Metro Trains Melbourne Pty Ltd [2020] FCAFC 81), enterprise agreement approval (Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union v OS ACPM Pty Ltd [2020] FWCFB 2434), anti-bullying (Mayson v Mylan Health Pty Ltd [2020] FWC 1404; Luong v Carers of Africa Inc [2020] FWCFB 373; Re Kennedy [2020] FWC 1405), adverse action (Western Union Business Solutions (Australia) Pty Ltd v Robinson [2019] FCAFC 181; King v PIA Mortgage Services Pty Ltd v King [2020] FCAFC 15) and unfair dismissal (Gupta v Portier Pacific Pty Ltd [2020] FWCFB 1698, confirming that an Uber Eats delivery driver was not an employee, and was thus unable to bring an unfair dismissal claim in the Fair Work Commission) are included in this new edition’s revised and expanded commentary, and referred to in the annual Year in Review discussion by the general editors, making Fair Work Legislation an indispensable part of any employment law practitioner’s or academic’s professional library.

Editors of the Publication

Mark Rinaldi B Juris(Hons) LLB BA (UWA), LLM Grad Dip Corporations and Securities Law (Melb), Barrister

Mark Rinaldi is a leading industrial and employment law barrister. Prior to joining the Victorian Bar in 1997, Mark was a solicitor and Senior Associate at Freehills in Perth and Melbourne in commercial litigation and employee relations. He was also Associate to Justice French of the Federal Court (later French CJ of the High Court) in 1990 – 91. Mark appears regularly in State and Federal courts, the Fair Work Commission, VCAT and other tribunals, as well as providing advice and conducting mediations and inquiries, predominantly in employment, industrial and commercial law matters. Mark joined the Tasmanian Bar in 2008 and has chambers in both Melbourne and Hobart. He is also an interstate member of the Western Australian Bar. He is a national committee member of the Australian Labour Law Association, an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the University of Tasmania and a Senior Fellow in the Faculty of Law, Monash University.

Dr Victoria Lambropoulos BA, LLB (Monash), LLM (Melb), PhD (Deakin); Barrister, Victorian Bar; Head of Law, College of Law, Criminology & Justice, Central Queensland University.

Dr Victoria Lambropoulos is an academic and a barrister. She has worked at Monash, Melbourne and Deakin universities and the ANU College of Law in Canberra. Victoria is currently the Head of Law and the College of Law, Criminology & Justice at Central Queensland University. She is based in the Melbourne campus.  Victoria is also a member of the Victorian Bar where she practises in employment/industrial relations and discrimination law.  Victoria writes regularly for academic and practitioner journals on employment and industrial relations issues. She is a regular presenter at practitioner and academic conferences both in Australia and internationally. Victoria is a member of many professional organisations including the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria where she was a past President, the Industrial Bar Association, the Australia Labour Law Association and the Association for Tertiary Education Management.   Victoria also has a keen interest in technology and the delivery of legal services and is a member of ALTA, the Australian Legal Technology Association.

Rohan Millar LL M, B Com (Melb), Barrister at Law

Rohan Millar is a Melbourne barrister practising in employment law.  He appears regularly in the Fair Work Commission and the courts, particularly in cases involving termination of employment, post-employment restraints, discrimination, employment contracts  and industrial disputes.  Prior to joining the Bar he was a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks.

Aaron Neal BEco, LLB (Hons) (Syd), Solicitor, Supreme Court of New South Wales

Aaron Neal has extensive experience in workplace relations and employment law, having been an Associate to Justice Marshall of the Federal Court of Australia, a Legal and Policy Officer at the Commonwealth Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, practised as a barrister at the New South Wales Bar, and worked as in house lawyer at a number of Unions, most recently as Consultant Lawyer at the Maritime Union of Australia.

Fair Work Legislation 2020—21

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