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Employment Lawyers Brisbane
Gilshenan & Luton provide professional advice and representation in all areas of employment law from unfair dismissal, redundancy and general protection matters through to workplace bullying, discrimination and human rights matters.
We also assist clients with respect to employment contracts, modern awards and enterprise bargaining agreements as well as professional misconduct and disciplinary matters.
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Articles - Employment Law
Workplace right of entry for union officials
The Fair Work Act provides right of entry provisions which allow union officials to enter a workplace under certain circumstances. The purpose of a right of entry is to balance the workplace rights of employees and the rights of employers running a business.
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Protected and unprotected industrial action
The law around industrial action is complex, and it’s important for everyone involved in such disputes - employees, unions and employers – to understand what constitutes industrial action, and what they can and cannot lawfully do in undertaking such action in the course of a bargaining dispute.
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Worker’s general protections claim fails in the Federal Court
A Federal Court employment law decision in 2024 emphasises what is required when establishing that the making of a complaint constitutes the exercise of a workplace right for the purposes of a general protections claim under the Fair Work Act.
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Update on stop bullying orders – FedEx workers fail in Fair Work Commission
In 2023, a number of workers engaged by FedEx Australia made an application to the Fair Work Commission for a “stop bullying order” against FedEx and one of its managers. The application was ultimately denied by the Fair Work Commission.
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