Shop Distributive and Allied Employees' Association v Woolworths Limited [2006] FCA 616

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Shop Distributive and Allied Employees' Association v Woolworths Limited [2006] FCA 616

INDUSTRIAL LAW – certified agreement – interpretation – incorporation of State legislative provisions with respect to long service leave – State Act using phrase 'ordinary pay' – differing definitions of 'ordinary pay' in State Act and certified agreement – whether incorporation by reference involves incorporation of statutory definition – whether presumption of consistency in use of terminology applies – whether conflict between definitions – whether 'ordinary time rate of pay' includes shift penalties and premiums Held: provisions of State Act incorporated by reference included statutory definition of 'ordinary pay' – that definition did not include shift penalties and premiums. WORDS AND PHRASES – 'ordinary time rate of pay' Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) ss 4(1), 170LT, 178(1), 178(6), 179A, 347, 356(b), 413A, Sch 1B s 27 Long Service Leave Act 1992 (Vic) ss 4, 56, 64

Woolworths Limited - SDAEA Mulgrave Produce and Recycling Enterprise Agreement 2003-2006 cll 3, 6, 8, 9, 16.a, 17, 18.b), 19, 24, 27, 28, 33.c), 38, 45.c)

Seymour v Stawell Timber Industries Pty Ltd (1985) 9 FCR 241 cited

Queen in Right of the State of Victoria v Australian Teachers Union (1993) 47 IR 328 cited

Clyne v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (1981) 150 CLR 1 cited

Modern Buildings Wales Ltd v Limmer and Trinidad Co Ltd [1975] 2 All ER 549 considered

Merchant Service Guild of Australia v Sydney Steam Collier Owners & Coal Stevedores Association (1958) 1 FLR 248 cited

Printing & Kindred Industries Union v Davies Bros Ltd (1986) 18 IR 444 cited

Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union v Prestige Property Services Pty Ltd [2006] FCA 11 cited

Catlow v Accident Compensation Commission (1989) 167 CLR 543 cited