Anthony Longland

Andrew Gray’s articles from King & Wood Mallesons are most popular: within Employment and HR topic(s) with Senior Company Executives, HR and Inhouse Counsel in Australia with readers working within the Business & Consumer Services, Metals & Mining and Telecomms industries In a case arising from Qantas's 2020 outsourcing of ground-handling services, the Court imposed a record $90 million penalty for adverse-action breaches.

Unfair dismissal provisions in Federal legislation have always been controversial. Ordering reinstatement of an employment relationship is perhaps the most serious intervention in what is a personal relationship between the employee and employer. Indeed, over centuries, the common law developed strong principles against ordering specific performance of employment contracts – precisely because they concern personal service.

The first in a series of three Insights addressing the momentous changes to Australia's bargaining system brought in by the Federal Government last year which commence operation on 6 June 2023. These changes fundamentally shift the bargaining dynamic, leading to an alteration of power between employers and employees in many respects. The landmark Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 passed both houses of Parliament in December 2022 with significant fanfare.