INDUSTRIAL ACTION – termination of protected industrial action – endangering life – s.424 Fair Work Act 2009 – the Independent Education Union of Australia (IEUA) and The Baptist Union of Queensland-Carinity (Carinity) engaged in protracted enterprise bargaining negotiations – the IEUA applied for termination of its own protected industrial action against Carinity – IEUA submitted that the protected industrial action posed a danger to student welfare – interim order to suspend all protected industrial action issued 23 October 2018 – NTEU v Monash considered – Commission found that circumstances were distinguishable from the facts in NTEU v Monash where the Full Bench accepted the potential impact of results bans on the welfare of university students – Commission found that the industrial action of the employees of Carinity was more an inconvenience and not as yet causing significant harm – found alternative arrangements had been put in place by Carinity to ameliorate the potential impacts of the industrial action on students – application dismissed – interim order suspending protected industrial action lifted. Independent Education Union of Australia
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