This article examines the industrial action provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) in the context of international labour standards which protect the right to strike, particularly the International Labour Organisations’ Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise...

This article examines to what extent there is legacy of the Commission’s labour standards in the new legislated standards in the National Employment Standards and dismissal protection in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). The Commission’s ‘community standards’, mainly from ‘test cases’...

Over the past 15 years the statutory framework regulating fairness in dismissal has undergone much change, as parliaments have attempted to address what they see as the inadequacies of the system. This paper provides a comparison of three time periods at the federal level: the Workplace...

As trade relations with the United States and Cuba continue to improve (December 17, 2015 is the one-year anniversary of the United States agreeing to open diplomatic relations with the island nation), cigars and rum aren't the only two exports that will soon flood the American market. Cuban...