Application by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union [2016] FWC 8847 | Case summary

(#P61_8435) Witness Statement of Jeff Sales - Exhibit 1 Annexure JS-35.

Fair Work Commission|2016-12-08|Before: Deputy President Asbury, President Asbury

(#P56_7668) Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 1 paragraphs 44-46.

(#P61_8435) Witness Statement of Jeff Sales - Exhibit 1 Annexure JS-35.

(#P62_8738) Second Witness Statement of Jeff Sales - Exhibit 2 Annexure JS-41.

(#P63_9063) Second Witness Statement of Jeff Sales - Exhibit 2 Annexure JS-42.

(#P204_26134) [2010] FWAFB 6021 at [37] - [44].

(#P207_27172) Pearce and Geddes Statutory Interpretation in Australia 8th Edition, LexisNexis Butterworths at 459-460.

(#P220_28250) Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 1 paragraphs 83 to 89.

(#P223_28603) Statement of Mark Heaton - Exhibit 4 at paragraphs 84 - 93.

(#P224_28773) Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 1 paragraphs 40 - 46.

(#P225_28905) Ibid paragraphs 50 - 52.

(#P226_29084) Witness Statement of Mark Heaton - Exhibit 4 paragraphs 100 - 106.

(#P229_29718) Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 1 Annexure JS-15.

(#P232_30002) Ibid Annexure JS-15.

(#P233_30373) Witness Statement of Mark Heaton - Exhibit 4 paragraph 131.

(#P242_31651) Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 1 Annexure JS-16.

(#P245_31757) Ibid at paragraph 57 and Annexure JS-17 Contemporaneous notes of meeting taken by Mr Scales.

(#P246_31863) Ibid at paragraph 61 and Annexure JS-20 Contemporaneous notes of meeting taken by Mr Scales.

(#P247_31978) Ibid at paragraphs 64 - 67 and Annexure JS-24 Contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by Mr Scales.

(#P250_32522) Ibid respectively Annexures JS-25, JS-27, JS-30 and JS-34.

(#P260_33656) Ibid Annexure JS-29.

(#P277_35788) Ibid Annexure JS-32.

(#P282_37157) Witness statement of Mark Heaton - Exhibit 4 Annexure MH-10.

(#P285_37756) Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 1 Annexure JS-15 and Witness statement of Mark Heaton - Exhibit 4 Annexure MH-7.

(#P286_38072) Witness Statement of Mark Heaton - Exhibit 4 at paragraph 118.

(#P293_39126) Ibid paragraphs 119 and 189.

(#P296_40071) Witness statement of Mark Heaton - Exhibit 4 paragraphs 164 - 166 and Annexure MH-9.

(#P299_41343) Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 1 Annexure JS36.

(#P302_41997) Second Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 2 paragraphs 4 - 8.

(#P303_42521) Ibid at paragraph 8.

(#P307_43598) Ibid at [25] - [26].

(#P314_45170) [2002] QSC 62.

(#P315_46144) Ibid at [6].

(#P318_46542) Ibid at [17].

(#P321_47375) Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 1 paragraph 79 and Annexure JS-37.

(#P324_48409) Ibid - paragraph 80 and Annexure JS-38.

(#P349_52168) Second Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 2 Annexure JS-44.

(#P354_53685) Third Witness Statement of Jeff Scales - Exhibit 3 Paragraphs 13-15 and Annexure JS-50.

(#P361_56656) [2015] FCAFC 76.

(#P372_60467) Ibid at 174 - 175.

(#P389_63290) CFMEU v Tahmoor Coal [2010] FWAFB 3510; (2010) 195 IR 58 at [7]; AWU v Woodside Energy Limited [2012] FWA 4332 at [43], [98]; Queensland Nurses' Union of Employees v TriCare Limited [2010] FWA 7416 at [50]- [51])

(#P392_63756) Australian Mines and Metals Association v MUA [2016] FWA 738 at [28].

(#P395_64099) cf Tricare at [51].

(#P398_64296) United Voice [2012] FWA 9047 at [14].

(#P399_64669) AMWU [2011] FWA 2005 at [30].

(#P400_64937) Transport Workers' Union of Australia v Transit (NSW) Services Pty Ltd (t/as Transit Systems) [2016] FWCFB 997 at [15].

(#P412_66335) Australian Mines and Metals Association v MUA [2016] FWC 738 at [29]

(#P413_66449) Woodside at [96].

(#P414_66551) Victoria Hospitals Industry Association v Australian Nurses Federation [2011] FWA 9068 at [24].

(#P415_66741) cf Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZMDS (2010) 240 CLR 611 at [130]

(#P416_66880) cf Lo v Commissioner of State Revenue (2013) 85 NSWLR 86 at [9].

(#P417_67267) Macquarie Dictionary (3rd ed) p 2305.

(#P420_67758) cf Mobil Oil Australia Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation [1963] HCA 41; (1963) 113 CLR 475, 504.

(#P421_68143) cf Mobil Oil, 503-504.

(#P426_69181) (1999) 93 IR 82.

(#P429_69327) Ibid at [23].

(#P432_69480) Major Engineering Pty Ltd v AFMEPKIU (2001) 129 IR 123 at [35].

(#P434_69916) [2011] FWA 2005

(#P441_70695) [2009] FWA 153

(#P443_71058) [2013] FWC 10241

(#P448_71514) [2013] FWC 1250

(#P454_72167) First Witness Statement of Mark Heaton dated 14 November 2016 - Exhibit 4para 186.

(#P456_72503) Ibid Annex MH-10, p 106-107.

(#P458_72713) Annex MH-10, p 106-107.

(#P461_73113) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, paras 22-24.

(#P463_73463) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, paras 85, 87, 91, 92, 93 and Annexure MH-10, p 106-107.

(#P465_73673) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, paras 94-95.

(#P468_74241) Ibid para 108.

(#P470_74461) Ibid para 107.

(#P472_74777) Ibid para 112 and 113.

(#P474_75011) Ibid para 116.

(#P476_75265) Ibid para 114.

(#P478_75580) Ibid para 115.

(#P480_75938) Ibid para 127 and 128.

(#P481_76064) Ibid para 129.

(#P483_76362) Ibid para 136.

(#P485_76831) Ibid para 137.

(#P488_77324) Ibid para 185.

(#P495_78988) Ibid para 189.

(#P498_79239) Ibid paras 164-167, 183, 190.

(#P499_79317) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, Annex MH-9, pp 94-98.

(#P500_79509) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, para 80.

(#P501_79695) Ibid para 96.

(#P502_79977) Ibid para 202.

(#P503_80229) Ibid para 200-201.

(#P508_81035) Board of Bendigo Regional Institute of Technical and Further Education v Barclay [2012] HCA 32; (2012) 248 CLR 500 at [126].

(#P511_81418) See, eg, Scales Statement, 7.11.2016, paras 23, 24, 79, 81, 90-96; Scales Statement, 9.11.2016, para 11 and Annex JS-44.

(#P514_82183) Applicant's Submissions, paras 24-25.

(#P515_82436) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, para 186.

(#P523_83326) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, paras 115-116 and correspondence Annex MH-10, p 189.

(#P528_83856) Applicant's Submissions, p 15, para 21(a).

(#P530_84002) Applicant's Submissions, p 15, para 21(b).

(#P532_84157) Applicant's Submissions, p 15, para 21(c).

(#P537_84940) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, para 122.

(#P538_85115) Ibid para 207(a).

(#P539_85218) Ibid para 207(c).

(#P540_85446) Ibid para 207(d).

(#P541_85603) Ibid para 207(b).

(#P546_85933) Applicant's Submissions, p 16, para 23.

(#P549_86129) Ibid para 25

(#P570_91019) TWU v Veolia Transport Queensland Pty Ltd [2011] FWA 5691 at [62].

(#P578_92364) cf Tahmoor Coal op. cit. at [8]; Jupiters Ltd v United Voice (2011) 215 IR 123 at [32].

(#P581_93091) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, paras 202, 208(d).

(#P582_93424) Ibid para 201.

(#P584_93737) Oppermann Statement, 15.11.2016, pp 123, 153.

(#P588_94334) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, p 103.

(#P590_94589) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, Annex MH-9, pp 94-98.

(#P592_95005) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, para 202.

(#P607_97293) Australian Education Union v Department of Education and Children's Services (2012) 285 ALR 27 at [26]

(#P608_97519) Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 at [69]

(#P609_97804) Municipal Officers' Association of Australia v Lancaster (1981) 37 ALR 559 at 579; Bowling v General Motors Holden Ltd [1980] FCA 143; (1980) 33 ALR 297 at 304

(#P612_98613) Mills v Meeking [1990] HCA 6; (1990) 169 CLR 214 at 235 per Dawson J; R v L (1994) 49 FCR 534 at 538

(#P627_103274) Australian Mines and Metals v MUA [2016] FWC 738.

(#P631_103994) Selvachandran v Peteron Plastics (1995) 62 IR 371 at 373.

(#P662_113279) (1999) 93 IR 82.

(#P663_113540) Ibid at 88.

(#P664_113705) (197) 77 IR 269 at 285 per Boulton J.

(#P669_114516) (1999) 92 IR 82 at 89.

(#P672_114721) Ibid.

(#P675_115309) Fair Work Bill 2009 Explanatory Memorandum at Page 149.

(#P726_132408) Heaton Statement, Exhibit 4, para 207(b).

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Application by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union [2016] FWC 8847 (8 December 2016)

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