Dianne Banks

A practical guide to Australia’s legal and regulatory landscape for businesses, investors and legal advisers entering or operating in Australia. It provides an overview of Australia’s system of government, legal framework and key regulators…

WA’s mining boom faces a severe skills shortage. Legal, contractual and migration reforms are needed to manage workforce risk and sustain project delivery.

Federal Court fines Qantas $90million, the largest Fair Work Act penalty, highlighting union power, management accountability and major deterrence. Visit Gilbert + Tobin for more information.

The High Court clarified FWC’s broad inquiry into redeployment, impacting redundancy and unfair dismissal claims under the Fair Work Act 2009. Visit Gilbert + Tobin for more.

Continuing its far-reaching competition law reform and productivity agenda, the Australian Government is poised to introduce sweeping reforms to ban non-compete clauses by overriding the common law with new statutory bans, and prohibit agre…

In this article, we examine two recent developments in work health and safety which will impact safety prosecutions in NSW in light of both signals from the new Industrial Court of New South Wales regarding the manner in which it intends to…

President Biden's AI Executive Order required his Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) to develop an empirical model which could track and predict the impact of AI on the US labour market.

Overview of the Industrial Manslaughter Legislation in NSW On 20 June 2024, the NSW Parliament passed the Work Health and Safety Amendment (Industrial Manslaughter) Bill 2024. The legislation introduces a new offence of industrial mans…

Following the first tranche of changes passed in December 2023, the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No.2) Act 2023 (Cth) (Amendment Act) received royal assent on 26 February 2024. This second tranche of the amendments to …

The long-awaited Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023 was finally passed by Parliament on 5 September 2023 (FAR). The bill was first introduced into the House of Representatives on 28 October 2021.

On 20 July 2023, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) released materials for consultation, to support the implementation of the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR…

We outline the HC's decisions on independent contractors in ZG Operations v Jamsek [2022] & Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining & Energy Union v Personnel Contracting Pty Ltd [2022]