Hingston, Peter George & Anor v Simplot Australia Pty Ltd [1998] FCA 64

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA INDUSTRIAL LAW - termination of employment - redundancies created by outsourcing - terminations without notice and without consultation - operational requirements - reinstatement - severance payments - transmission of employment - damages for shock and distress Workplace Relations Act 1996 ss.170DE(1), 170DB, 170EA, 170EE Stones & Others & CEPU v Simplot Australia Pty Ltd (IRCA, unreported 30 June 1997) Diprose and Others & National Union of Workers v Simplot Australia Pty Ltd (IRCA, unreported, Judgments 3 and 31 October 1997)

Abbott-Etherington v Houghton Motors Pty Ltd (1995) 63 IR 394 Perkins v Grace Worldwide (Aust) Pty Ltd (1997) 72 IR 186

Kozelz v Kellogg Australia Pty Ltd (IRCA, unreported, 26 July 1996)

Victoria v Commonwealth (1996) 138 ALR 129 Patterson v Newcrest Mining Limited (1996) 68 IR 419 Nicolson v Heaven and Earth Gallery Pty Ltd (1994) 1 IRCR 199

Liddell v Lembke (1994) 1 IRCR 466, 127 ALR 342

PETER GEORGE HINGSTON AND STANLEY LEWIS KAINE v SIMPLOT AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

TI-1066 of 1996 TI-1067 of 1996 Judicial Registrar Ryan Melbourne 12 February 1998

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY TI-1066 & TI-1067 of 1996

BETWEEN: PETER GEORGE HINGSTON

First Applicant

STANLEY LEWIS KAINE

Second Applicant

AND: SIMPLOT AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

Respondent

JUDICIAL REGISTRAR: RYAN

DATE OF ORDER: 12 FEBRUARY 1998

WHERE MADE: MELBOURNE

THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. The respondent pay the applicant Peter George Hingston compensation in the sum of $3,000 pursuant to s170EE(3) and damages in the sum of $2,689.44 pursuant to s170EE(5) - total $5,689.44.

2. The respondent pay the applicant Stanley Lewis Kaine compensation in the sum of $3,000 pursuant to s170EE(3) and damages in the sum of $2,361.63 pursuant to s170EE(5) - total $5,361.63.