NSW Caselaw
Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales
CITATION: Australian Workers Union v. BlueScope Steel Limited [2007] NSWIRComm 1022
APPLICANT Australian Workers Union PARTIES: RESPONDENT BlueScope Steel Limited
FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 3417 of 2006
CORAM: Connor C
CATCHWORDS: industrial dispute - steelworks - referral agreement - meeting of employees - whether meeting constituted industrial action or a communication meeting - loss of wages for minimum of four hours - warnings issued - obligation on employer to pay wages to employees at work - no-work-no-pay concept considered - payment of wages and removal of warnings ordered
LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996 Federal Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act, 2005
Australian Workers Union v. BlueScope Steel Limited [2005] NSWIRComm 1194 Australian Workers Union v. BlueScope Steel Limited [2006] NSWIRComm 1092 Automatic Fire Sprinklers Pty Limited v. Watson (1946) 72 CLR 435 Briginshaw v. Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 366 Csomore v. Public Service Board of New South Wales (1987) 10 NSWLR 587 CASES CITED: Re Dispute between the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board and the Transport Workers' Union of Australia (1952) 107 IG 28 Electricity Commission of New South Wales v. Swieringa (1975) AR 504 Hutchinson v. Metal Manufacturers Limited (1948) AR 818 Mercer v. Associated Electrical Industries Limited Petrie v. Mac Fisheries Limited (1940) 1 KB 258 Suffolk County Council v. Secretary of State for the Environment (1984) ICR 882
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