The Fair Work Commission has published an updated version of the unfair dismissals benchbook.
The updated version reflects recent case law and rules changes, including information on labour hire workers, notification of dismissal, transferring employees, loss of trust and confidence, application fees and false or misleading evidence.
The benchbook contains plain English summaries of the key principles of unfair dismissal case law and how these have been applied in Commission decisions. It is designed to provide information to parties to assist in the preparation of material for matters before the Commission.
As part of its performance objective, the Commission is working to improve the resources it provides to users to enable them to help themselves.
The benchbook assist parties lodging or responding to unfair dismissal applications under the Fair Work Act 2009.
The new version of the unfair dismissals benchbook is designed to be read online and can be accessed on the Commission’s website. A printable version of the benchbook is also available for download.
