FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

 

Minister of State for Employment Workplace Relations and Small Business v CPSU, Community and Public Sector Union [2001] FCA 316

 

 


MINISTER OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND SMALL BUSINESS  V  CPSU, THE COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SECTOR UNION, EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL LIMITED AND EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL (ADMINISTRATION) PTY LIMITED

 

NO. N 429 of 2000

 

 

AND

 

 

EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL LIMITED AND EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL (ADMINISTRATION) PTY LIMITED  V  CPSU, THE COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SECTOR UNION AND MINISTER OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND SMALL BUSINESS

 

NO. N 432 OF 2000

 

 

 

 

JUDGES:                       BEAUMONT ACJ, RYAN & MADGWICK JJ

DATE:                            15 JUNE 2001

PLACE:                   SYDNEY



IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

 

NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY

N 429 OF 2000

 

ON APPEAL FROM A SINGLE JUDGE OF THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

 

BETWEEN:

MINISTER OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND SMALL BUSINESS

APPELLANT

 

AND:

CPSU, THE COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SECTOR UNION

FIRST RESPONDENT

 

EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL LIMITED

SECOND RESPONDENT

 

EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL (ADMINISTRATION) PTY LIMITED

THIRD RESPONDENT

 

 

N 432 OF 2000

AND BETWEEN:

EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL LIMITED AND EMPLOYMENT NATIONAL (ADMINISTRATION) PTY LIMITED

APPELLANTS

 

AND:

CPSU, THE COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SECTOR UNION

FIRST RESPONDENT

 

MINISTER OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND SMALL BUSINESS

SECOND RESPONDENT

 

JUDGES:

BEAUMONT ACJ, RYAN & MADGWICK JJ

DATE OF ORDER:

15 JUNE 2001

WHERE MADE:

SYDNEY

 

CORRIGENDUM


1.                  The following orders in N429 of 2000 should have been attached to and formed part of the judgment of the Court published 15 June 2001:-

 

            THE COURT ORDERS THAT:

1.                  The appeal be allowed in part.

 

2.         The order made by Einfeld J on 11 April 2000 be varied;


(a)                by adding to the declaration made in the proceedings numbered NG 181 of 1998, the words:  “to the extent that each such award or agreement (as the case may be) was capable, on its proper construction, of applying to the applicants or either of them on or after that date”;

 

(b)        by adding to the declaration made in the proceedings numbered NG 331 of 1998 the words:  “to the extent that each such award or agreement (as the case may be) was capable, on its proper construction, of applying to the first respondents or either of them on or after that date”;

 

(b)               by adding to the declaration made in the proceedings numbered NG 402 of 1998 the words “to the extent that each of such award or agreement (as the case may be) was capable, on its proper construction, of applying to the first and second respondents or either of them on or after that date”.

 

3.         The appeal be otherwise dismissed.

 

 

 

2.                  The order in N432 of 2000 should be amended by substituting for the phrase “according to its terms” in each of sub-paragraphs 2(a), 2(b) and 2(c) the phrase “on its proper construction”.

 

 

 

 

 

Associate to Justice Ryan

16 July 2001