Overview — Other legislation

While not strictly “industrial” in character, there are a number of pieces of legislation which nevertheless have the potential to give rise to legal liability for those who organise or engage in industrial action in certain circumstances.

In particular, we will be looking at:

• • the anti-competitive conduct provisions now set out in ss 45D–45EB of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (see Competition law);

• • s 46 of the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016 (Cth) which prohibits organising or engaging in certain unprotected industrial action related to building work (see Building industry legislation); and

• • the various State and Federal “essential services” legislation (see Essential services laws).