Gordon Meggatt v Australian Business Limited [2007] NSWIRComm 182

Industrial Court of New South Wales

CITATION: Gordon Meggatt v Australian Business Limited [2007] NSWIRComm 182

Applicant: PARTIES: Gordon Meggatt Respondent: Australian Business Limited

FILE NUMBER(S): IRC6648 of 2004

CORAM: Kavanagh J

CATCHWORDS: Section 106 - termination for serious misconduct - asserted act of sexual harassment at work social occasion - terms of contract fair - failure to define procedure in terms not unfair - fair procedures followed - conduct of investigation fair - no breach of contract - contract not rendered unfair by conduct

LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996

Abboud v The State of NSW (Department of School Education) (1999) 92 IR 32 Applicant v Respondent, Print R1221, 1 February 1999 Bankstown City Council v Paris (1999) 100 IR 363 Beahan v Bush Boake Allen Australia Limited (1999) 93 IR 1 Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 Byrne v Australian Airlines Ltd (1995) 185 CLR 410 Concut Pty Ltd v Worrell (2000) 103 IR 160 CASES CITED: Hawkins v Clayton (1987) 164 CLR 539 Ian Ueckert and Australian Water Technologies Pty Ltd [2000] NSWIRComm 123 Pastrycooks Employees, Biscuit Makers Employees & Flour and Sugar Goods Workers Union (NSW) v Gartrell White (No 3) (1990) 35 IR 70 Rose v Telstra Corporation Limited, Print Q9292, 4 December 1998 Shepherd v Felt and Textiles of Australia Ltd (1931) 45 CLR 359 Simon Richard Lane v The Commonwealth Bank of Australia [2000] NSWIRComm 274 Sunbird Plaza Proprietary Limited v Maloney and Another (1988) 166 CLR 245 Sydney Water Corporation Ltd & Anor v Industrial Relations Commission of NSW & Anor (2004) 61 NSWLR 661 Truelove v Sydney Water Corporation Limited and anor [2005] 46 IR 253