Illuminating the operation of the transfer of business provisions in the Fair Work Act
04 February 2021
The recent decision of Justice Katzmann in Community and Public Sector Union, NSW Branch v Northcott Supported Living Limited for the first time directly addresses the requirement that for an industrial instrument to ‘transfer’ for purposes of the transfer of business provisions in Part 2-8 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), the work performed by a transferring employee for a new employer must be ‘the same, or substantially the same’ as the work the employee performed for the old employer.
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