Conversion of ‘casual’ employees to permanent status, ‘same job same pay’ rules and more rights for gig workers will be the major areas targeted for reform in the third – and perhaps not final – series of workplace law changes likely to be tabled by the Australian federal government in September.
Australian court emphasises limits on refusing enforcement of foreign arbitral awards
A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Victoria in a case highlights the pro-arbitration aims of Australia’s International Arbitration Act, manifested in this case by the limited circumstances in which an Australian court may refuse to enforce a foreign arbitral award where the opposing side does not raise any of the other grounds listed in that legislation.