Recent Fair Work Commission Learnings
Employment law continues to be a frequently litigated and ever
changing area of law in Australia. For some years most employees
have been governed by the federal system, with some notable
exceptions in Western Australia and many state public sector
employees who still operate under state legislative regimes. At the
federal level, the majority of employment litigation takes place
before Australia's national workplace relations tribunal, the
Fair Work Commission (FWC).
In the previous financial year there were 14,624 unfair
dismissal applications to the FWC with the vast majority (79%)
resolved at conciliations held in the Commission. General
protections applications concerning dismissal were fewer in number
with only 3,382 filed in the same financial year.
