NSW Caselaw
Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales in Court Session
CITATION : Peace v BHP Refractories Pty Ltd; Peace v BHP Refractories Pty Ltd [2000] NSWIRComm 235 APPLICANT: David Wordsworth Peace PARTIES : RESPONDENT: BHP Refractories Pty Ltd (IRC 3369 of 2000) BHP Refractories Pty Ltd (IRC 1845 of 1999) FILE NUMBER: 3369 of 2000 & 1845 of 1999 CORAM: Boland J CATCHWORDS : Unfair contract - contract of employment - sale of a business as a going concern - redundancy pay not available until purchaser determined its labour requirements from respondent's workforce - uncertainty of applicant obtaining employment with purchaser - applicant resigned to take up alternative employment prior to completion of sale - redundancy pay refused - held contract of employment unfair - contract varied - orders requiring payment of redundancy pay. Long service leave - pressing or domestic necessity - applicant had 8 years, 9 1/4 months service - sale of business as a going concern - applicant resigned to take up alternative employment prior to sale - applicant faced with choice of uncertainty of employment with purchaser or certainty of alternative employment - held that termination due to domestic or pressing necessity - orders requiring payment of proportionate long service leave. Industrial Relations Act 1996 LEGISLATION CITED : Long Service Leave Act 1955 A & M Thompson Pty Ltd v Total Australia Ltd [1980] 2 NSWLR 1 Baker v National Distribution Services (1993) 50 IR 254 Barry v Incitec Ltd (1991) 45 IR 143 Computer Sciences of Australia v Leslie (1983) 6 IR 188 Davies v General Transport Development Pty Ltd [1967] AR (NSW) 371 Incitec Ltd v Barry (1992) 45 IR 148 CASES CITED : Incitec Ltd v Industrial Court of New South Wales (1993) 45 IR 155 Jones v Dunkel (1959) 101 CLR 298 McNaught v Micador (1996) 83 IR 111 Payne v Foxboro (1998) 81 IR 404 Port Macquarie Golf Club v Stead (1996) 64 IR 53 Smith v Nutshack Franchise (Unreported, Maidment J, 28 August 1998) Swann v Ultratune (1983) 5 IR 284 Westbus Pty Ltd v Bartush (2000) 95 IR 480 HEARING DATES: 08/01/2000; 08/02/2000; 08/03/2000; 10/13/2000 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 11/23/2000
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