Roberg v FGP Company Pty Ltd & Steelworks Australia Pty Ltd [2013] FWC 4947

(#P66_5997) Exhibit A1.

(#P68_6103) Exhibit A2.

(#P70_6228) Exhibit A3.

(#P72_6491) Exhibit SW1.

(#P87_8284) Clauses 1.1 and 3 of the sale contract.

(#P100_10031) GEERS is a Commonwealth scheme designed to provide certain entitlements when an employee losses their employment through liquidation or insolvency of their former employer. The Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) replaced GEEERS in December 2012.

(#P109_11191) A bar table contention to this effect was made by Mr Hardie and was not contradicted.

(#P129_13260) DePaul v Nansen Enterprises P/L t/as Bayswater Sheet Metal Supplies; Moras v Nansen Enterprises Pty Ltd t/as Bayswater Sheet Metal Supplies (1997) AIRC Print P0215.

(#P155_16112) Part 3-2 - Unfair dismissal of the Act is directed at dismissals by the employer of the applicants.

(#P160_16666) AIRC Print S0253.

(#P183_17995) (2003) 133 FCR 438.

(#P194_20669) Ibid per Marshall J.

(#P197_20945) Ibid per Wilcox J at par 3.

(#P247_25127) Nokes v Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Ltd [1940] AC 1014; Re Coogi Nominees Pty Ltd (Administrators appointed); McCluskey v Karagiosis [2002] FCA 1137; (2002) 120 IR 147. Questions of estoppel apart: Smith v Blandford Gee Cementation Co Ltd [1970] 3 All ER 154; the employee's consent must be a real one whether express or implied and is "not to be raised by operation of law": Denham v Midland Employers Mutual Assurance Ltd [1955] 2 QB 437 at 443. See also Re C & T Grinter Transport Services Pty Ltd; Ex parte Fitzgerald [2004] FCA 1148 Finn J at par [20] for a discussion of these and other principles concerning the identification of the true employer in relevant circumstances.

(#P252_26415) Damevski v Giudice as an example.

(#P257_26969) Ford v Lismore City Council (1989) 28 IR 68.

(#P260_27372) Ibid at pgs 78 to 80.

(#P269_28312) Phillips v Alhambra Palace Co [1901] 1 QB 59.

(#P280_29437) Walker v Salomon Smith Barney Securities PL [2003] FCA 1099; (2003) 140 IR 433.

(#P289_30257) Pioneer Services Ltd v Yelnah Pty Ltd (1986) 5 NSWLR 254 per Young J.

(#P296_31220) BA and BW Fabrications Pty Ltd (1997) AIRC Print P3537.

(#P301_31999) DePaul and Moras v Nansen Enterprises P/L t/as Bayswater Sheet Metal Supplies (1997) AIRC Print P6737.

(#P314_34004) See for example: R Donovan v Concrete Waterproofing Pty Ltd, AIRC PR910467 (2001) per Lacy SDP and the discussion of the approach taken by the court in Australian Insurance Employees Union v WP Insurance Services Pty Ltd, 42 ALR 598 at 606; 1 IR 212 at 216; Textile Footwear & Clothing Union of Australia v Bellechic Pty Ltd & Ors [1998] 1465 FCA (19 November 1998).

(#P317_34706) [2002] WAIRComm 4778. This was upheld on appeal: Burswood Catering and Entertainment Pty Ltd v Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, Western Australian Branch [2002] WASCA 354.

(#P318_34952) (1990) 94 ALR 679.

(#P329_35655) Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, Western Australian Branch v Burswood Catering and Entertainment Pty Ltd [2002] WAIRComm 4778. See also the discussion of these decisions by the majority of the Full Bench in Australian and International Pilots Association v Qantas Airways Limited and Jetconnect Limited [2011] FWAFB 3706.

(#P332_36077) See generally Briggs v James Hardie & Co Pty Ltd (1989) 16 NSWLR 549 and Willcox v Federal Commissioner of Taxation [1988] FCA 123; (1988) 79 ALR 267

(#P337_36925) See Pioneer Services Ltd v Yelnah Pty Ltd (1986) 5 NSWLR 254 per Young J.

(#P340_37059) [2004] HCA 55; (2004) 218 CLR 471.

(#P343_37411) Equuscorp Pty Ltd v Glengallan Investments Pty Ltd [2004] HCA 55; (2004) 218 CLR 471 at [46].

(#P346_37527) (2006) 158 IR 410.

(#P347_37679) Sharrment Pty Ltd v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy [1988] FCA 179; (1988) 18 FCR 449.

(#P348_37765) Equuscorp Pty Ltd v Glengallan Investments Pty Ltd [2004] HCA 55; (2004) 218 CLR 471.

(#P351_38027) Department of Justice v Lunn (2006) 158 IR 410 at [36].

(#P370_40691) See Phoenix Activity: Sizing the problem and matching solutions, a report for the Fair Work Ombudsman by PwC, June 2012.

(#P385_43340) S.3 and s.381 of the Act.

(#P386_43403) Including s.577, s.578, s.590 and s.591 of the Act.

(#P397_45760) Steelworks written submission, 29 May 2013.

(#P442_49069) Grounds of the production application.

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