Chelvarajah v Global Protection Pty Ltd [2004] FCA 1661

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Chelvarajah v Global Protection Pty Ltd [2004] FCA 1661 INDUSTRIAL LAW – employment – termination – order of Australian Industrial Relations Commission requiring appointment of former employee to equivalent position and payment of remuneration lost – employer no longer carrying on business or employing anyone in position of that kind – whether mandatory injunction should be granted to enforce term of order requiring appointment to position – whether penalty should be imposed for breach of term of order requiring appointment to position – whether penalty should be imposed for breach of term of order requiring payment of remuneration lost – whether former employee entitled to sue for money due under term of order requiring payment of remuneration lost CONTEMPT OF COURT – penalty – fine – discretion to impose – interlocutory mandatory injunction requiring appointment of person to a position – respondent no longer carrying on business or employing anyone in position of that kind – whether fine should be imposed – whether interlocutory injunction should be discharged WORDS AND PHRASES – 'employee' – 'employer'

Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) ss 15AA, 33(2A), Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 (Cth) (repealed) s 119 Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) ss 59(1), 62, 64(2), 87(1)(a), 87(1)(b) Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) ss 51A, 52 Industrial Relations Act 1988 (Cth) s 178(1) Penalty Interest Rates Act 1983 (Vic) Service and Execution of Process Act 1992 (Cth) s 9 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1987 (Cth) Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) ss 4(1), 170CE(1)(a), 170CF(1), 170CFA, 170CH, 170CH(4)(b), 170CH(6), 170JC, 170JC(1), 170JC(3), 170JC(3)(a), 170CH(3), 170CH(3)(a), 170CH(3)(b), 170CH(4), 178, 178(1), 178(4)(a)(ii), 178(5)(d), 178(6), 179, 179(1), 179(3), 179A, 356(b), 347, 412(1)(a), 412(1)(b), 412(1)(e) Workplace Relations Amendment (Codifying Contempt Offences) Act 2004 (Cth) s 3(1) Federal Court Rules O 35 r 8 Ramsey Butchering Services Pty Ltd v Blackadder [2002] FCAFC 20 (2002) 127 FCR distinguished Attorney-General v Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum (1868) LR 4 Ch App 146 followed Anthony Smith and Associates Pty Ltd v Sinclair (1996) 67 IR 240 distinguished Parkinson v Grazcos Co-Operative Ltd (1958) 1 FLR 90 followed Municipal Officers Association of Australia v Shire of Wanneroo (Federal Court of Australia, Toohey J, 19 June 1985, unreported) followed Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union v Mudginberri Station Pty Ltd (1986) 161 CLR 98 followed Witham v Holloway (1995) 183 CLR 525 followed Re Bramblevale Ltd [1970] Ch 128 followed ANTON CHELVARAJAH AND AUSTRALIAN LIQUOR, HOSPITALITY AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKERS' UNION v GLOBAL PROTECTION PTY LTD (ACN 078 956 519) TRADING AS KIRWAN SECURITY SERVICES V 857 of 2003 GRAY J 21 DECEMBER 2004 MELBOURNE