Lower Court Judgment
29/11/2016 Federal Court of Australia (Jessup J, Katzmann J, White J)
Catchwords
Industrial law – Jurisdictional error – Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) – Approval of enterprise agreements – Whether Fair Work Commission fell into jurisdictional error in exercising functions under s 186 – Whether within Fair Work Commission’s jurisdiction to determine whether group of employees who voted on single enterprise agreement within coverage of agreement – Whether Fair Work Commission fell into jurisdictional error in determining agreement satisfied “better off overall test” under s 193 – Unreasonableness in jurisdictional sense.
08/03/2017 Hearing (SLA, Canberra)
20/03/2017 Notice of appeal
23/03/2017 Submitting appearance (Second Respondent)
29/03/2017 Notice of Contention (First Respondent)
11/04/2017 Written submissions (Appellant)
11/04/2017 Chronology (Appellant)
10/05/2017 Written submissions (First Respondent)
24/05/2017 Reply
09/08/2017 Hearing (Full Court, Brisbane)
06/12/2017 Judgment (Judgment summary)