High Court confirms employers must consider redeployment before redundancy

Court ruling has made staff redundancy policies stiffer for SMEs

A recent high court ruling could potentially impact how Australia’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) should address redundancies in their workforce moving forward. This comes in the wake of the Federal Court ruling, which found that Helensburgh Coal breached the Fair Work Act when it sacked 22 workers from its Metropolitan Coal Mine north of Wollongong in June 2020, after a significant drop in the price of metallurgical coal. The company cite…

High Court confirms employers must consider redeployment before redundancy

Save (1) Please login to bookmarkClose Username or Email Address Password Remember Me The High Court has upheld a decision that found Helensburgh Coal should have tried to redeploy 22 workers it dismissed as redundant and replaced with contractors. Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.Already a subscriber? Username or Email Address Password Remember Me Lost your password? The post High Court confirms…

High Court challenge over illegally sacked miners tossed out for third time

Twenty-two miners operating out of Peabody’s Helensburgh mine have retained their win against their former employer, with the High Court upholding the finding that their dismissals were not genuine redundancies.