The Fair Work Act Review and key developments in enterprise bargaining

The first few months of 2012 have seen much activity on the part of unions, employers and business groups on two fronts: making submissions to the independent Review of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act), and continuing to utilise the legislation’s bargaining and protected action framework in novel and interesting ways.

In this paper, we provide an update on the progress of the FW Act Review, and a round-up of some significant recent decisions dealing with enterprise bargaining and protected industrial action (PIA).

More specifically, it addresses the following topics:

• Fair Work Act Review – The Process and Submissions
• Fair Work Act Review – Outcomes
• Developments in Enterprise Bargaining
  • Good Faith Bargaining
  • Notices of PIA and Applications for ‘Stop Orders’
  • Interaction of PIA and GFB
  • Suspension or termination of PIA
  • Bargaining and PIA – Lessons for Employers

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