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The Fair Work Commission (FWC), until 2013 known as Fair Work Australia (FWA), is the Australian industrial relations tribunal created by the Fair Work Act 2009 as part of the Rudd Government's reforms to industrial relations in Australia.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Adam Hatcher, Adelaide, Attorney-General of Australia, Australia, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Fair Pay Commission, Australian Government, Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Australian labour law, Brisbane, Canberra, Enterprise bargaining agreement, Fair Work Act 2009, Fair Work Ombudsman, Geoffrey Giudice, Governor-General of Australia, Iain Ross (judge), Industrial action, Industrial relations, Marian Baird, Mark Dreyfus, Martin Ferguson (politician), Minimum wage, Modern award, Newcastle, New South Wales, Perth, Rudd government (2007–2010), Sophie Mirabella, Workplace Authority.

  2. Commonwealth of Australia courts and tribunals
  3. Courts and tribunals established in 2009
  4. Labor relations boards
  5. Labour relations organisations in Australia
  6. Leave of absence

Adam Hatcher

Adam Hatcher is an Australian jurist and former barrister who has served as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the Australian Fair Work Commission since 19 February 2023.

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Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Attorney-General of Australia

The attorney-general of Australia (AG) is the minister of state and chief law officer of the Commonwealth of Australia charged with overseeing federal legal affairs and public security as the head of the Attorney-General’s Department.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Building and Construction Commission

The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) was an independent, statutory authority of the Australian Government, responsible for promoting understanding and enforcing workplace relations compliance in the Australian building and construction industry.

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Australian Fair Pay Commission

The Australian Fair Pay Commission was an Australian statutory body that existed from 2006 to 2009.

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Australian Government

The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Australian Industrial Relations Commission

The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC), known from 1956 to 1973 as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and from 1973 to 1988 as the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, was a tribunal with powers under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (and equivalent earlier legislation) that existed from 1956 until 2010. Fair Work Commission and Australian Industrial Relations Commission are labor relations boards.

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Australian labour law

Australian labour law sets the rights of working people, the role of trade unions, and democracy at work, and the duties of employers, across the Commonwealth and in states.

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Enterprise bargaining agreement

Enterprise bargaining is an Australian term for a form of collective bargaining, in which wages and working conditions are negotiated at the level of the individual organisations, as distinct from sectoral collective bargaining across whole industries.

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Fair Work Act 2009

The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia, passed by the Rudd government to reform the industrial relations system of Australia.

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Fair Work Ombudsman

The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) (or formally, the Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman), is an independent statutory agency of the Government of Australia that serves as the central point of contact for free advice and information on the Australian national workplace relations system. Fair Work Commission and Fair Work Ombudsman are 2009 establishments in Australia.

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Geoffrey Giudice

Geoffrey Michael Giudice (16 December 1947 – 18 November 2021) was a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1997 to 2012 and the president of Fair Work Australia from 2009 to 2012.

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Governor-General of Australia

The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III.

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Iain Ross (judge)

Iain James Kerr Ross is a retired Australia jurist who served as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1 March 2012 to 18 November 2022, as well as President of the Australian Fair Work Commission (formerly Fair Work Australia) during the same period.

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Industrial action

Industrial action (British English) or job action (American English) is a temporary show of dissatisfaction by employees—especially a strike or slowdown or working to rule—to protest against bad working conditions or low pay and to increase bargaining power with the employer and intended to force the employer to improve them by reducing productivity in a workplace.

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Industrial relations

Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship; that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor/trade unions, employer organizations, and the state.

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Marian Baird

Marian Pam Baird is an Australian academic researcher, Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Head of the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney, and a member of the Australian Fair Work Commission.

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Mark Dreyfus

Mark Alfred Dreyfus (born 3 October 1956) is an Australian politician and lawyer who has been attorney-general of Australia and cabinet secretary since June 2022, having held both roles previously in 2013 and from 2010 to 2013 respectively.

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Martin Ferguson (politician)

Martin John Ferguson (born 12 December 1953) is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was the Member of the House of Representatives for Batman from 1996 to 2013.

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Minimum wage

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.

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Modern award

A modern award (or award previously known as an "industrial award") is a ruling in Australian labour law of the national Fair Work Commission (or its predecessor) or by a state industrial relations commission which grants all wage earners in one industry or occupation the same minimum pay rates and conditions of employment such as leave entitlements, overtime and shift work, as well as other workplace-related conditions.

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Newcastle, New South Wales

Newcastle, also commonly referred to as Greater Newcastle (Mulubinba) is a regional metropolitan area and the second-most-populous district of New South Wales, Australia.

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Perth

Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.

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Rudd government (2007–2010)

The first Rudd government was the executive Government of Australia formed by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

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Sophie Mirabella

Sophie Mirabella (née Panopoulos; born 27 October 1968) is an Australian lawyer and former politician who currently serves as a Commissioner on the Fair Work Commission since 24 May 2021.

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The Workplace Authority was an Australian Government statutory agency that existed from 1 July 2007 to 1 July 2009.

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See also

Commonwealth of Australia courts and tribunals

Courts and tribunals established in 2009

Labor relations boards

Labour relations organisations in Australia

Leave of absence

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Work_Commission

Also known as Fair Work Australia, Fair work act.