- Mark Curran writes about the dangers of employees altering medical certificates;
- Olga Sashko discusses two cases where not for profit organisations have been found liable for injuries sustained by carers; and
- Laura Gallagher examines a case where a labour hire organisation was held not liable for unfair dismissal where the employee was dismissed at the request of a host employer and where the labour hire employer was fulfilling a contractual obligation to remove an employee from the workplace.
In the next few weeks we can expect the Federal Government to re-introduce legislation to reestablish the ABCC and establish a Registered Organisations Commission. The Government's success will be heavily dependent on how the Senate approaches these issues.
The ABCC legislation will also seek to introduce offences in the construction industry such as unlawful picketing and requiring a contractor to make an enterprise agreement. The Registered Organisations Bill will allow courts to ban union officials from office if they repeatedly break the law and codify obligations on unions to act in the best interests of members.
The Coalition has also indicated they will introduce legislation requiring disclosure of payments to unions in enterprise bargaining following the Cole Royal Commission.
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