[2015] FWC 7312
General information, not legal advice.
Fair Work Commission
2015-11-16
Jessup J
Original judgment source is linked above.
(#P27_2233) [2014] FCA 1321.
(#P48_10451) Ibid at [5][14].
(#P51_10663) Noting the formal denial of the allegations made by the MUA Respondents to which reference is later made.
(#P54_11321) Exhibit 11 at [19].
(#P55_11491) Ibid at [17].
(#P56_11544) Ibid.
(#P57_11753) Ibid at [18].
(#P60_11837) Ibid at [21].
(#P61_12103) Ibid at [26]-[27] and Attachment SHZ-3.
(#P66_12845) See Exhibits 1, 2, 5 and 6.
(#P69_13513) See Exhibits 11 and 12.
(#P72_13769) Exhibit 25 at [72]; Exhibit 26 at [16].
(#P73_13878) Exhibit 25 at [72].
(#P74_14006) Exhibit 26 at [18].
(#P75_14307) Exhibits 39 and 41.
(#P78_14805) Exhibit 40.
(#P81_15644) See Outline of Submissions of DP World Melbourne Limited (24 July 2015) at [2].
(#P84_15962) See First Respondent's Points of Defence (12 February 2015) at [104].
(#P85_16285) Outline of Submissions of DP World Melbourne Limited (24 July 2015) at [4].
(#P88_16561) Exhibit 25 at [19] and Exhibit 26 at [20].
(#P91_17074) MUA Respondents' Outline of Final Submissions (21 August 2015) at [24] and Transcript PN 5095.
(#P92_17342) Applicant's' Outline of Final Submissions (14 August 2015) at [36].
(#P95_18311) Transcript PN 4874-PN 4876; See also Maritime Union of Australia v DP World Melbourne Ltd [2014] FCA 1321 at [156].
(#P140_22799) See Applicants' Outline of Final Submissions (14 August 2015) at [16][32].
(#P147_23462) [2014] FCA 1321.
(#P148_23771) [2014] FCA 1321 at [156].
(#P151_24608) Exhibit 36 at [5].
(#P158_26542) Exhibit 36 at [7][8].
(#P161_26719) Exhibit 25 at [5].
(#P182_28936) Ibid at [15][16].
(#P276_36486) Transcript PN 3545-PN 3558 and PN 3584-PN 3613.
(#P283_37643) Exhibit 25 at [15(b)].
(#P286_37917) Transcript PN 3604-PN 3611.
(#P287_38203) Exhibit 36 at [8].
(#P290_39022) Exhibit 25 at Annexure GM-2 at [9].
(#P295_40115) See Applicants' Outline of Final Submissions (14 August 2015) at [29][30].
(#P298_40755) Transcript PN 1358; PN 1442; PN 2351; PN 2357 and PN 3896PN 3903.
(#P299_41193) Transcript PN 442PN 443; PN 655PN 657, PN 942, PN 952; PN 1788 and PN 1798.
(#P300_41648) Transcript PN 504; PN 676; and PN 3958PN 39560, PN 3969PN 3974, PN 4008PN 4011 and PN 4025PN 4029.
(#P305_42112) See Applicants' Outline of Final Submissions (14 August 2015) at [31].
(#P306_42323) Transcript PN 556; PN 687; PN 1188; PN 1315; PN 1360; PN 3647PN 3650 and PN 3701PN 3705.
(#P307_42649) Transcript PN 1360.
(#P310_42845) See Applicants' Outline of Final Submissions (14 August 2015) at [32].
(#P321_44468) Exhibit 25 at [20(b)].
(#P324_44920) Ibid at [20(e)].
(#P331_46483) Ibid at [22]-[23].
(#P364_52022) Ibid at [25][26].
(#P367_52206) Ibid at [29][54].
(#P398_55259) Ibid at [77].
(#P399_55441) Exhibit 26 at [10].
(#P400_55598) Transcript PN 3899PN 3920.
(#P401_55788) Transcript PN 3947PN 4062.
(#P402_55983) Transcript PN 3706PN 3739.
(#P405_56068) See Applicants' Outline of Final Submissions (14 August 2015) at [32] and Annexure thereto.
(#P406_56522) Transcript PN 3637; Exhibit 26 Annexures GM-56, GM-57, GM-58.
(#P407_57644) Exhibit 32.
(#P428_60078) Exhibit 25 at [56]-[70].
(#P437_60665) See Applicants' Outline of Final Submissions (14 August 2015) at [24][28].
(#P438_60964) Transcript PN 764; PN 766PN 768; PN 868; PN 1374 and PN 4372.
(#P441_61508) Transcript PN 351, PN 354PN 355; PN 1360, PN 1362; PN 1426; PN 1458; PN 1602PN 1603; PN 2096; PN 2619; PN 2633; PN 2887PN 2890 and PN 3865PN 3867.
(#P444_61814) Transcript PN 624; PN 1184; PN 1399; PN 2368; PN 2369 and PN 2621.
(#P447_61983) Transcript PN 477; PN 828 and PN 1181.
(#P450_62316) Transcript PN 573; PN 764; PN 766; PN 1281; PN 2038PN 2040; PN 2624, PN 2728; PN 3849PN 3850 and PN 3922PN 3924.
(#P451_62754) See for example Part 4 of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013, particularly Division 2 and s.105.
(#P454_63469) See for example s.35 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic), particularly ss.35(1)(a) and (b).
(#P459_64236) Transcript PN 582; PN 585; PN 757; PN 845 and PN 870.
(#P462_64491) Transcript PN 1322; and PN 2638PN 2639.
(#P465_64685) Transcript PN 713, PN 849PN 851; PN 1284; PN 1758; PN 1760; PN 4116 and PN 4118.
(#P468_64919) Exhibit 30 and Transcript PN 3373; PN 3416PN 3428 and PN 3783.
(#P471_65225) Transcript PN 592PN 595; PN 605; PN 3058PN 3069, PN 3155PN 3156 and PN 3189PN 3192.
(#P474_65644) Transcript PN 4110PN 4116 and PN 4304PN 4305.
(#P477_65793) Exhibit 37 at [1].
(#P478_65930) Ibid at [4(c)].
(#P479_66374) Ibid at [5]-[6].
(#P508_74084) Exhibit 37 at [11][21].
(#P511_74300) Ibid at [19].
(#P596_86513) Exhibit 25 at [74][78].
(#P672_92955) Exhibit 26 at [5] and [7][15].
(#P681_93702) Exhibit 26 at [6] and Annexure GM55 at [5], [7] and [8].
(#P698_95166) See Applicants' Outline of Final Submissions (14 August 2015) at [24][26].
(#P759_103969) Exhibit 17 at [4]-[18].
(#P764_104495) Exhibit 6 at [96].
(#P767_104863) Ibid at [97].
(#P770_105054) Ibid at [100].
(#P773_105215) Ibid at [99].
(#P776_105490) Ibid at [101].
(#P781_105751) Exhibit 2 at [78].
(#P784_106016) Ibid.
(#P787_106256) Ibid at [79].
(#P790_106604) Ibid at [80].
(#P793_107060) Ibid at [81].
(#P798_107269) Exhibit 12 at [33].
(#P801_107529) Ibid at [32].
(#P804_107879) Ibid at [38].
(#P809_108671) Exhibit 26, Annexures GM-63, GM-67 and GM-70.
(#P810_109005) Ibid.
(#P813_109620) Exhibit 37 at [13]-[15].
(#P816_109892) Exhibit 26, Annexures GM-63, GM-67 and GM-69.
(#P817_110106) Outline of Closing Submissions of DP World (21 August 2015) at [9].
(#P824_112509) Transcript PN 4657-PN 4658.
(#P825_112862) Transcript PN 2801.
(#P828_113057) Transcript PN 333-PN 334.
(#P829_113165) Transcript PN 351-PN 355.
(#P830_113412) Transcript PN 783-PN 784.
(#P835_113580) For example Transcript PN 764.
(#P838_113685) Exhibit 26, Annexure GM-65.
(#P839_113734) Transcript PN 354; PN 371 and Exhibit 26, Annexure GM-66.
(#P842_114093) Exhibit 26, Annexure GM-67.
(#P843_114294) Ibid at Items 1-10, 13-14 and 16.
(#P844_114344) Ibid at Items1- 5 which deal with the risk of vandalism and property damage.
(#P845_114438) Ibid at Item 15.
(#P846_114548) The issue of the update of the women's change room to include male change room - Item 5; inclusion of additional words to describe behaviour such as physical violence - Items 1-5, 8 and 13, false allegations - Item 15, on-going ostracisation - Items 1-10, 13-14 and 16 and property damage - Items 1-5; the ship was identified as a very dangerous place - Items 8-9 and 14.
(#P849_115206) Transcript PN 775.
(#P850_115336) Transcript PN 835-PN 837.
(#P853_115447) Transcript PN 616-PN 619.
(#P856_115636) Transcript PN 1273.
(#P857_115805) Transcript PN 1478-PN 1479.
(#P860_116260) Transcript PN 1494-PN 1532; Exhibit 10.
(#P863_116387) Exhibit 26, Annexure GM-60.
(#P864_116510) Transcript PN 1487-PN 1491.
(#P867_116620) Transcript PN 1156; Exhibit 5, Attachment AFC-57.
(#P868_116730) Transcript PN 1159-PN 1162.
(#P869_116922) Transcript PN 1170 and PN 1185.
(#P872_117034) Transcript PN 1209, PN1597 and PN 1600.
(#P875_117196) Transcript PN 1189, Exhibit 5, Attachment AFC-58.
(#P876_117456) Transcript PN 1643-PN 1646.
(#P879_117596) Transcript PN 1482, Exhibit 26, Annexure GM-63.
(#P880_118005) Exhibit 26, Annexure GM-63.
(#P883_118083) Transcript PN 1209.
(#P886_118533) Transcript PN 4434-PN 4470.
(#P891_118946) Transcript PN 2060-PN 2071.
(#P894_119046) Transcript PN 2077-PN 2082.
(#P897_119157) Transcript PN 1970-PN 1971.
(#P898_119241) Transcript PN 2083.
(#P901_119389) Transcript PN 1967-PN 1970; Exhibit 26, Annexure GM-70.
(#P904_119700) Transcript PN 2004.
(#P909_121226) Transcript PN 4657-PN 4658.
(#P910_121314) Transcript PN 2801-PN 2802.
(#P913_121527) Exhibit 26, Annexures GM-63, GM-67 and GM-70.
(#P942_128654) Transcript PN 345-PN 355 and PN 591.
(#P945_128728) Outline of Closing Submissions of DP World (21 August 2015) at [10]-[12].
(#P966_129832) Ibid at [11]. See also Exhibit 25 at [29]-[70]; Exhibit 26 at [7]-[19] and Exhibit 36 at [18]-[20].
(#P969_130167) Outline of Closing Submissions of DP World (21 August 2015) at [12].
(#P1014_135691) Transcript PN 849-PN 869.
(#P1017_136626) Exhibit 2 at [41]-[42], Attachment SLB-47; Exhibit 12 at [12], Attachment SHZ-35.
(#P1018_136803) Transcript PN 840 and PN 1358. See also PN 3582 re Mr McCluskey's understanding of the code of silence.
(#P1021_137488) Exhibit 25 at [15(b)].
(#P1024_138054) Transcript PN 828.
(#P1037_142007) Transcript PN 2101-PN 2104.
(#P1040_142407) Exhibit 41.
(#P1041_142551) Ibid.
(#P1048_144084) The MUA Respondents' written Outline of Final Submissions (21 August 2015) on this point were confined by Ms Coombe and Ms Bowker, but they accepted that in the evident that the jurisdiction argument raised in relation to Mr Zwarts was not accepted, the position the MUA Respondents had adopted in respect of Ms Coombe and Ms Bowker would also apply to Mr Zwarts; See Transcript PN 5091-PN 5093.
(#P1051_144523) See generally MUA Respondents Outline of Final Submissions (21 August 2015) at [25]-[34].
(#P1056_145529) Amended Points of Claim at [95B].
(#P1059_146283) Exhibit 25 at [72]; Exhibit 26 at [16].
(#P1064_147069) Exhibit 19 at [35]; Attachment IB-10.
(#P1067_147317) Exhibit 19 at [38]; Attachment IB-12.
(#P1070_147519) Exhibit 19 at [39]; Attachment IB-13.
(#P1073_147701) Exhibit 19 at [44]; Attachment IB-16.
(#P1076_147867) Exhibit 19 at [45]-[46]; Attachment IB-16 and IB-17.
(#P1079_148134) Exhibit 20 at [4]-[5]; Attachment IB-18.
(#P1082_148273) Exhibit 20 at [7]; Attachment IB-19.
(#P1085_148625) See for example Transcript PN 3053-PN 3070.
(#P1086_148692) See for example Transcript PN 3093-PN 3104.
(#P1093_149003) See [2014] FCA 1321.
(#P1096_149080) Noting that Mr Kirkman has an extant unfair dismissal remedy application made pursuant to s.394 of the Act.
(#P1103_149530) Exhibit 38.
(#P1106_149620) Exhibit 20 at [9]-[13].
(#P1113_149826) Exhibit 25 at [20].
(#P1116_149892) Exhibit 25 at [25].
(#P1119_149950) Ibid at [77].
(#P1122_150031) Exhibit 26 at [12]-[19].
(#P1125_150190) Exhibit 25 at [77].
(#P1138_153408) Outline of Closing Submissions of DP World (21 August 2015) at [14]-[18].
(#P1141_154134) Ibid at [19].
(#P1144_154550) Ibid at [20]-[21].
(#P1147_154983) Section 789FF(1)(b) of the Fair Work Act 2009.
(#P1150_155359) Exhibits 39, 40 and 41.
(#P1155_156518) Exhibit 25 at [19] and Exhibit 26 at [20].
(#P1158_157215) Transcript PN 4874-PN 4876. See also Maritime Union of Australia v DP World Melbourne Ltd [2014] FCA 1321 at [156].
(#P1167_159985) For a full definition of 'prevent' see Oxford English and Macquarie Concise Dictionary.
(#P1179_160546) Outline of Submissions of DP World (24 July 2015) at [32].
(#P1186_161020) Emails and attached tables from Solicitors for the Applicants and DP World respectively, sent to my Chambers and each dated 1 September 2015.
(#P1190_161725) Outline of Submissions of DP World (24 July 2015) at [33].
(#P1193_161933) Exhibit 25 at [77]; Exhibit 26 at [7]-[11].
(#P1196_162079) Exhibit 26 at [12]-[19].
(#P1199_162197) Exhibit 25 at [86]-[128]; Exhibit 36 at [12].
(#P1202_162301) Exhibit 25 at [25] and [102].
(#P1205_162407) Ibid at [25] and [103].
(#P1208_162532) Ibid at [25], [92]-[99] and Annexure GM-13.
(#P1211_162677) Ibid at [107]-[111] and Annexure GM-13, Exhibit 36 at [41]-[42].
(#P1214_162833) Exhibit 25 at [25] and [112]-[114] and Annexures GM-21, GM-22, GM-26, GM-27, GM-32, GM-33, GM-36, GM-40, GM-42, GM-45, GM-47 and GM-49.
(#P1217_163106) Exhibit 25 at [59], Exhibit 36 at [35], [37]-[38], [40], [42] and [46]-[49].
(#P1220_163275) Exhibit 25 at [77], Exhibit 26 at [5], Exhibit 36 at [52].
(#P1223_163392) Exhibit 25 at [122]-[123], Exhibits 36 at [51].
(#P1226_163537) Exhibit 25 at [125]-[126].
(#P1229_163682) Ibid at [127]-[128].
(#P1278_169337) MUA Respondents' Outline of Final Submissions (21 August 2015) at [4].
(#P1295_171222) Ibid, at [5].
(#P1302_171857) Ibid, at [6].
(#P1307_172326) Transcript PN 5198.
(#P1310_172777) Email from MUA's representative containing undertaking sent to my Chambers on 26 August 2015.
(#P1315_173168) Transcript PN 5392.
(#P1318_173542) Email from MUA's representative containing undertaking sent to my Chambers on 26 August 2015.
(#P1684_201714)
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