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Employers, employees and unions must negotiate an enterprise agreement (EA) in good faith. In past articles, I have suggested that the US position – that any direct communications with your workers when there is a bargaining representative for the workers is unlawful – will not be followed in Australia

In Allman v Teletech International Pty Ltd, the Federal Court heard call centre workers for outsourcing service provider Teletech were made redundant after Telstra cancelled a key contract.

Making threats to employees to sign individual employment contracts is clearly foolish and bad business practice.

An employee’s disregard for safety doesn’t mean you can terminate them!

Employer groups are furious with Fair Work Australia’s decision to order the reinstatement of a worker who was sacked because of “serious misconduct” relating to a health and safety breach, because of his family circumstances, length of service and poor job prospects.

On 1 July 2009, the Australian industrial relations (IR) climate changed with the introduction of the Fair Work Act.