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Tendering tempo - likely labour costs for employers over the coming months

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • June 29 2009

The impacts of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) on the civil construction industry can be split into three categories: compliance costs from 1 July 2009, increased employment expenses from 1 January 2010, and potential industrial costs from 1 July 2010

Revised building industry guidelines released

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • July 10 2009

The Commonwealth Government yesterday released a revised version of the Implementation Guidelines for the National Code of Practice for the Construction Industry (Guidelines

National OHS compliance campaign in relation to scaffolding

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • July 23 2009

The Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities (HWSA) has recently launched a national OHS compliance campaign in relation to scaffolding

Safety questions you must ask (and know the answer to): Am I in control? What should I do?

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 18 2009

Reilly v Tobiassen involved the construction of industrial showrooms

High Court provides clarity on the common law duty of care to independent contractors

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • December 31 2009

The recent decision of the High Court of Leighton Contractors v Fox (the Leighton decision) provides some clarity on the common law duty of care of various contractors to other contractors

Breaks and ladders

  • Hall & Wilcox
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 30 2010

In our October 2009 edition of Insurable Interest we reported on the High Court decision in Leighton Contractors Pty Limited v Fox, which established that there is no common law duty requiring a principal contractor to train a sub-contractor in the safe methods of carrying out his own specialised task

The three OH&S Cs: consult, co-operate and co-ordinate with other duty-holders

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 13 2010

Contractors' and other employers' approach to the provision of a safe workplace cannot be implemented in isolation from the context of their work environment

Danger! Peligro! Publicity order in five languages

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 18 2010

A recent Australian decision has further highlighted the additional risks which migrant workforces face

Construction industry ‘safety blitz’ planned by Worksafe Victoria

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • February 24 2010

It is clear that the construction industry will continue to be a focus of Australian workplace health and safety regulators in coming months

Sham contracting

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • December 21 2009

In a recent decision, the Federal Magistrates Court examined the sham contracting provisions of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) (WR Act

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