Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union v State of South Australia [1999] FCA 597

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union v State of South Australia [1999] FCA 597 INDUSTRIAL LAW – claim for penalty and for moneys unpaid in breach of an industrial agreement – termination of employment on sale of business – whether former employees entitled to enhanced severance payments because they were not "offered employment with the purchaser" – meaning of "offered employment" in the industrial agreement – whether applicants offered employment Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth), s 178

Automatic Fire Sprinklers Pty Ltd v Watson (1946) 72 CLR 435 cited Printing and Kindred Industries Union v Vista Paper Products Pty Ltd (1994) 57 IR 414 applied Byrne v Australian Airlines Limited (1995) 185 CLR 410 cited MATTER NO. SG 92 OF 1997 AUSTRALASIAN MEAT INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES UNION & ORS v STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA VON DOUSSA J 10 MAY 1999 ADELAIDE

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

SOUTH AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY SG 92 OF 1997

BETWEEN: AUSTRALASIAN MEAT INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES UNION, PHILLIP BRUCE BAIN, ROGER WINSTON BEHENNA, RICHARD BOND, DANNY SCOTT BOWMAN, ANTHONY SHANE BUGG, RAYMOND LINDSAY BURGESS, NORMAN RODNEY BURTON, MARK WAYNE BYRNE, WAYNE MORRIS BYRNE, ROBERT VINCENT CLARKE, MICHAEL BRUCE COOMBE, DOREEN COPUS, IAN KEITH COX, RICHARD CRADDOCK, GERALDINE ANNE CROSBY, GEORGE DOUGLAS DAVIES, MALCOLM COLIN DEAN, VITTIORIO DIMASI, NICOLA D'ONOFRIO, CRAIG STUART ELMES, JOHN ROBIN EMERY, JAMES FEENEY, RAYMOND GUY FOLEY, MICHAEL JOHN FORD, WAYNE RODNEY FOSTER, SHANE DONALD FRAZER, JAMES GEORGIADIS, JOHN GEORGIADIS, PANTELIS GEORGIADIS, SIMEON GEORGIADIS, DAVID JOHN HICKMAN, ROBERT MATHEW HAINES, WAYNE DOUGLAS HAWKINS, BRONTE ELWIN HAYDON, PHILLIP ALLEN HERRAMAN, RODNEY FRANCIS JEFFRIES, MARK JOVANCEVIC, JAMES ROBERT KING, ROBERT KIRKPATRICK, CHRISTOPHER JAMES LAMBERT, GERARD MAJELLA LAVERY, SIMON DAVID LINK, DENNIS ADRIAN LITCHFIELD, DAMIANO LUPPINO, CON MANOLAKIS, ARTHUR MANOU, GREGORY McPHAIL, LE VAN MINH, WARRIS MUHAMMED, GRAHAM FRANCIS MURPHY, GRAHAM LESLIE NICHOLSON, MAXWELL JAMES O'BRIEN, DIANNE JOAN O'LOUGHLIN, DESMOND CARL PERKINS, DAVID CLIFF REYNOLDS, ASHLEY ROOCROFT, PAULINE ROSEWARNE, THEO CHARLES SUERWALD, EUNICE SCHLAEFER, ROBERT JOSEPH SMETHURST, RODNEY WILLIAM SMITH, STEPHEN JAMES STRACKE, NIKOLA STRINIC, JASON DOUGLAS VOUMARD, PATRICIA KAYE WALKER, JEFFREY SCOTT WALKER, GREGORY SCOTT YUILE