The following passages are taken from a very recent Federal Court case which dealt with a classic dispute between an…
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General protections proceedings which arise from an employment context (whether or not they involve a dismissal) are first commenced in…
The taking of unlawful adverse action against another party under the general protections of the Fair Work Act depends essentially…
One of the general protections in the Fair Work Act provides that an employer must not take adverse action against…
A lawyer has lost a general protections case brought against a law firm in the Federal Court alleging that he…
One of the most frequent reasons that an applicant fails in a general protections case is that he or she…
The following extract from a recent decision of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia contains a useful analysis of what…
Ordinarily, the commencement of a disciplinary investigation by an employer about an employee will constitute the taking of adverse action…
Here is a very interesting extract from a recent decision of the Federal Circuit Court about the ambit of the…
When determining whether a person has been a victim of adverse action under the general protections, the Australian courts adopt…
