Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association v Karellas Investments Pty Ltd (No. 2) [2007] FCA 1425

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Shop Distributive and Allied Employees' Association v Karellas Investments Pty Ltd (No. 2) [2007] FCA 1425

WORKPLACE RELATIONS – what constitutes a failure by an employer to give all of the persons employed at the time whose employment will be subject to an employee collective agreement a reasonable opportunity to decide whether they want to approve the agreement – circumstances in which an order declaring a workplace agreement void may be made

Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) ss 4(1), 8, 171(3), 327, 333(b), 337, 334-342, 340, 341(1), 342, 347(1), 347(2), 349, 351, 401(1), 405(1)(d), 405(3), 409(a), 412(1), 412(2), 418, 729 and 824, clauses 1, 3(1), 3(5) and 5 of Schedule 7 Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) and Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) s 87(1) and (1A) Workplace Relations Regulations 2006 (Cth) Regs 8.13 and 8.15 (within Chapter 2)

Byrne v Australian Airlines Limited (1995) 185 CLR 410 cited Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Proprietary Limited v Wardley (1980) 142 CLR 237 cited Quickenden v O'Connor (2001) 109 FCR 243 cited Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 referred to Rejfek v McElroy (1965) 112 CLR 517 referred to Gould v Vaggelas (1985) 157 CLR 215 referred to The State of Victoria v Sutton (1998) 195 CLR 291 cited Brooks v Burns Philp Trustee Co. Ltd. (1969) 121 CLR 432 cited Demagogue Pty Ltd v Ramensky [1992] 39 FCR 31 referred to

SHOP DISTRIBUTIVE AND ALLIED EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION v KARELLAS INVESTMENTS PTY LTD (ACN 008 547 911) NSD 768 OF 2007

GRAHAM J

12 SEPTEMBER 2007

SYDNEY

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY NSD 768 OF 2007

BETWEEN: SHOP DISTRIBUTIVE AND ALLIED EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION

Applicant

AND: KARELLAS INVESTMENTS PTY LTD (ACN 008 547 911)

Respondent