BHP Iron Ore Pty Ltd v Australian Workers' Union [2000] FCA 430

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

BHP Iron Ore Pty Ltd v Australian Workers' Union [2000] FCA 430 INDUSTRIAL LAW - employer offering individual workplace agreements - whether injury of employees or alteration of their positions to their prejudice - whether employer by threats or promises or otherwise inducing employees to stop being members of industrial association - whether award incorporated in employees' contracts of employment. INJUNCTIONS - exercise of discretion to grant interlocutory injunction - balance of convenience - injunction in form of final relief - need to confine interlocutory relief to a short period. Workplace Relations Act 1996 ss 290V, 298K, 298L, 298M Workplace Agreements Act 1993 (WA) Industrial Relations Act 1979 (WA) Industrial Relations Act 1988 (Cth) Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (UK) s 23(1) Iron Ore Production and Processing (Mt Newman Mining Co Pty Limited) Award Macquarie Dictionary (2nd Ed. 1991)

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