Termination of employment / Tim Donaghey.

Chatswood, N.S.W. : LexisNexis, 2006.

1st ed,

27001

Australia. -- Workplace Relations Act 1996.

Labor laws and legislation -- Australia.

Labor laws and legislation -- Australia.

1. An overview of the Australian statutory termination jurisdiction

2. Scope of the provisions in the Division

3. Jurisdictional and threshold exclusions

4. Applications in respect of merit under s 646 and other applications

5. Procedural m atters in statutory termination proceedings

6. The arbitration hearing and remedies available in the Commission

7. Relationship between termination under the Act and particular fact situations

8. Termination for a prohibited reason: s 659(2) of the Act

9. Applications under ss 660 and 661 of the Act.

Since the commencement of a statutory termination jurisdiction in the mid-1990s, the rights and responsibilities of employers terminating employees has been one of the most contested parts of Australian employment and industrial law. This book deals with the fundamentals of the Federal statutory termination jurisdiction. It provides a comprehensive picture, both pre- and post- Work Choices legislative reforms, of the state of termination case law in Australia.

Includes index.

9780409321807

xli, 322 p.