New South Wales Independent Education Union (on behalf of Chami-Rafiqi) v King Abdul Aziz College [2003] NSWIRComm 309

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales

CITATION : New South Wales Independent Education Union (on behalf of Chami-Rafiqi) v King Abdul Aziz College [2003] NSWIRComm 309 PARTIES : New South Wales Independent Education Union King Abdul Aziz College FILE NUMBER: 514 of 2003 CORAM: Grayson DP Alleged unfair dismissal, repudiation and/or abandonment of employment, alleged misconduct, procedural fairness, intervention in day to day running of school, disharmony between applicant and school board, industrial dispute, whether employment was of an ongoing nature, small claim. CATCHWORDS : Held, allegations of repudiation and/or abandonment devoid of objective merit, applicant wrongly accused of misconduct, applicant denied procedural fairness, failure to afford oppurtunity to explain alleged misconduct where amenable to innocent explanation, dimissal harsh unreasonable and unjust, reinsatement ordered, amount equal to lost remuneration ordered, continuity of service ordered, liberty to apply in respect of unresolved small claim. LEGISLATION CITED : Industrial Relations Act 1996 Antonakopoulos -v- State Bank of NSW [1999] 91 IR 385 Mason -v- Electricity Commision of NSW [1995] 62 IR 436 McCabe -v- New South Wales Police Service [1996] unreported, IRC3112 of 1994, 3 July 1996 Bigg -v- New South Wales Police Service [1998] 80 IR 434 CASES CITED : Oswald -v- New South Wales Police Service [1990] 90 IR 42 Johnson -v- Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Parramatta [1998] 87 IR 57 Commonwealth Steel Company -v- Word [1994] unreported, IRC 3144 of 1993, 16 December 1994 IGA Distribution Pty Ltd -v- Moses (No. 2) [2002] NSWIRComm 96 Perkins -v- Grace Worldwide (Australia) pty Ltd [1997] 72 IR 186 CCH Australia Ltd -v- Bowen [1998] 79 IR 206 HEARING DATES: 03/07/2003; 07/22/2003; 07/29/2003; 07/30/2003; 09/09/2003 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 10/03/2003