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Fair Work Act 2009
s.789FC - Application for an order to stop bullying
Victoria Leeman
(AB2018/3)
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT HAMBERGER SYDNEY, 19 JUNE 2018
Application for an order to stop bullying in relation to work in Roads and Maritime Services
– jurisdictional objections – whether the applicant was ‘at work in’ Roads and Maritime
Services – whether Roads and Maritime Services is a constitutionally-covered business –
whether Roads and Maritime Services is a trading corporation – whether Roads and
Maritime Services engages in ‘substantial’ or ‘significant’ trading activities – jurisdictional
objection dismissed.
[1] Ms Victoria Leeman (the applicant) has applied under s.789FC of the Fair Work Act
2009 (Cth) (the FW Act) for an order to stop bullying in relation to her work in Roads and
Maritime Services (RMS).
[2] The applicant’s employer (the employer) filed a response to the application on 19
January 2018. In its response, the employer gave its legal name as:
‘Secretary of the Department of Transport, exercising on behalf of the Government of
New South Wales, the employer functions of the Government in relation to the staff
employed in the Transport Service (Roads and Maritime Services).’
[3] The employer denied that any bullying behaviour had taken place. However, it also
raised two jurisdictional objections to this application, submitting that:
the applicant was never ‘at work in’ RMS; and
even if she were, RMS was not a constitutionally-covered business for the purposes
of s.789FD of the FW Act.
[4] The employer indicated on 9 February 2018 that it wished to participate in a
conciliation conference to see if the matters raised by the applicant could be resolved by
discussion. Accordingly, I held a conciliation conference on 19 February 2018. Unfortunately,
this did not resolve the matter, and the applicant indicated on 12 March 2018 that she wished
to proceed with her application. The employer confirmed that it wished to press its
jurisdictional objection, and the parties were directed to file outlines of submissions and any
relevant evidentiary material. The matter was listed for jurisdictional hearing on 15 May
2018.
[2018] FWC 3584 [Note: An appeal pursuant to s.604 (C2018/3774) was
lodged against this decision - refer to Full Bench decision dated
13 September 2018 [[2018] FWCFB 5772] for result of appeal.]
DECISION
E AUSTRALIA FairWork Commission
https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2018fwcfb5772.htm
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[5] The applicant requested to be excused from attending the jurisdictional hearing.
However, she sent an email on 1 May 2018 which said, inter alia:
‘I am of the understanding that I am employed by RMS which is supported by the
following:
My Letter of Offer refers to “a full time ongoing basis with Roads and Maritime
Services” and;
My role is covered by the Roads and Maritime Services Consolidated Salaried Award
2014”
My work email address is “victoria.leeman@rms.nsw.gov.au” (not @transport)
My position description refers to RMS being a separate agency as “one of four
operating agencies in the Transport Cluster”
My corporate purchasing card is in the name of NSW RMS VICTORIA LEEMAN
I disagree that I am employed by Transport NSW and that RMS is not a trading
corporation.
A portion of RMS revenue is derived from trading activities ie “own source funds”.’
The legislation
[6] Section 789FD of the Act provides:
‘789FD When is a worker bullied at work?
(1) A worker is bullied at work if:
(a) while the worker is at work in a constitutionally-covered business:
(i) an individual; or
(ii) a group of individuals;
repeatedly behaves unreasonably towards the worker, or a group of workers of
which the worker is a member; and
(b) that behaviour creates a risk to health and safety.
(2) To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not apply to reasonable management action
carried out in a reasonable manner.
(3) If a person conducts a business or undertaking (within the meaning of the Work
Health and Safety Act 2011) and either:
(a) the person is:
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(i) a constitutional corporation; or
(ii) the Commonwealth; or
(iii) a Commonwealth authority; or
(iv) a body corporate incorporated in a Territory; or
(b) the business or undertaking is conducted principally in a Territory or
Commonwealth place;
then the business or undertaking is a constitutionally-covered business.’
Consideration
Was the applicant ‘at work in’ RMS?
[7] RMS submitted the applicant could not have been ‘at work in’1 RMS, because RMS
does not and, indeed, cannot employ anyone directly.
[8] It is necessary to look at the relevant provisions of the Transport Administration Act
1988 (NSW) (the TA Act) to understand this submission fully. Section 68B of the TA Act
provides that:
‘68B The Transport Service
(1) The Transport Service of New South Wales consists of those persons who are
employed under this Part by the Government of New South Wales in the service of the
Crown. …’
[9] Section 68C of the TA Act states:
‘68C Employment in the Transport Service
(1) The Government of New South Wales may employ persons in the Transport
Service to enable the following bodies (and their public subsidiary corporations) to
exercise their functions:
(a) TfNSW,
(b) State Transit Authority,
(c) RMS.
Note: Section 68Q(10) provides that the persons so employed may be referred to as
officers or employees, or members of staff, of the body or corporation concerned.
Section 47A of the Constitution Act 1902 precludes TfNSW, the State Transit
Authority and RMS (and any of their public subsidiary corporations) from
employing staff.
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(3) The Transport Secretary may, subject to this and any other Act or law, exercise on
behalf of the Government of New South Wales the employer functions of the
Government in relation to the persons employed in the Transport Service.
(4) The employer functions of the Government are all the functions of an employer in
respect of employees, including (without limitation) the power to employ persons, to
assign them to roles and to terminate their employment.’ [my emphases]
[10] The note to s.68C(1) of the TA Act, set out above, refers to s.47A of the Constitution
Act 1902 (NSW). That section provides:
‘47A Employment of staff
(1) Persons employed by the Government of New South Wales in the service of the
Crown are to be employed in the Public Service of New South Wales under the
Government Sector Employment Act 2013 or in any other service of the Crown
established by legislation.
(2) A statutory body that is a NSW Government agency, or a person holding a public
office under the Government of New South Wales, cannot employ persons unless
legislation specifically authorises the body or person to do so.
(3) This section does not apply to:
(a) a State owned corporation, or
(a1) the employment of persons referred to in section 47B, or
(b) the engagement of independent contractors or volunteer workers.’
[11] While RMS is a legal entity, there is no legislation that ‘specifically authorises’ it to
employ people directly. Accordingly, the applicant is not, and could not have been, employed
by RMS. Rather, she is employed by the government of New South Wales in the Transport
Service in a position covered by the Roads and Maritime Services Consolidated Salaries
Award 2017, and is subject to the Transport Secretary’s exercise of that government’s
‘employer functions’.
[12] However, the fact that RMS is not the applicant’s employer does not preclude her
from being ‘at work in’ RMS. The phrase ‘at work in’ as used in s.789FD of the FW Act is
not defined in the legislation, so it takes its natural and ordinary meaning. The phrase must
connote something considerably broader than just the performance of tasks in the context of
an employer-employee relationship, because the legislature has deliberately used the word
‘worker’, not ‘employee’. A Full Bench of the Commission has found that:
‘… a “worker” is an individual who carries out work in any capacity for a person
conducting a business or undertaking, including as an employee; a contractor or
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subcontractor; an outworker; an apprentice or trainee; a student gaining work
experience, or a volunteer.’2
[13] The applicant was employed in the Transport Service, but she was there to enable
RMS to exercise its functions. She turned up to work at RMS premises each day. The people
from whom she took her day-to-day directions and with whom she interacted were employed
in the Transport Service, but were also assigned to RMS to enable it to exercise its functions.
It easily falls within the natural and ordinary meaning of the phrase to say that the applicant
was ‘at work in’ RMS.
[14] Further, the purpose of Part 6-4B of the FW Act is to protect workers from being
bullied while at work. That protection is afforded to workers in the course of performing their
day-to-day duties, wherever they may be. It would be artificial and inconsistent with that
purpose to say that because the applicant is technically not employed by RMS, she should not
be able to obtain an order directed to the entity that directs her day-to-day duties, protecting
her from bullying by those with whom she interacts for the purposes of those duties.
[15] I therefore find that the applicant was ‘at work in’ RMS.
Is RMS a constitutionally-covered business?
[16] RMS is a New South Wales State government agency. It is therefore not the
Commonwealth, a Commonwealth authority or a body corporate incorporated in a Territory.3
Nor is its business or undertaking conducted principally in a Territory or Commonwealth
place.4 To be a constitutionally-covered business, then, RMS would need to be a
constitutional corporation.5
[17] A constitutional corporation is one that falls within the ambit of s.51(xx) of the
Australian Constitution, which states that the Commonwealth Parliament ‘has power to make
laws… with respect to… foreign corporations, and trading or financial corporations formed
within the limits of the Commonwealth’.
[18] Section 46 of the TA Act states:
‘46 Constitution of RMS
(1) There is constituted by this Act a corporation with the corporate name of Roads
and Maritime Services.
(2) RMS is a NSW Government agency.’
[19] It is clear from that section that RMS is a corporation, but not a foreign corporation.
The applicant did not contend that RMS is a financial corporation. Therefore, the issue I need
to determine is whether RMS is a trading corporation.
[20] In Cowie,6 Hampton C comprehensively canvassed the authorities on determining
whether a corporation is a trading corporation:
‘[31] The approach of the Courts and Tribunals to the meaning of a trading corporation
has been conveniently summarised by Steytler P in Aboriginal Legal Service (WA) Inc
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v Lawrence (No 2.) (Lawrence). Having reviewed the developments in the approach of
the High Court to arrive at what might be described as the activities test, His Honour
found as follows:
“68 The more relevant (for present purposes) principles that might be drawn
from these and other cases are as follows:
(1) A corporation may be a trading corporation even though trading is not its
predominant activity: Adamson (239); State Superannuation Board (303 -
304); Tasmanian Dam case (156, 240, 293); Quickenden [49] - [51], [101];
Hardeman [18].
(2) However, trading must be a substantial and not merely a peripheral
activity: Adamson (208, 234, 239); State Superannuation Board (303 - 304);
Hughes v Western Australian Cricket Association Inc [1986] FCA 357; (1986)
19 FCR 10, 20; Fencott (622); Tasmanian Dam case (156, 240, 293); Mid
Density (584); Hardeman [22].
(3) In this context, ‘trading’ is not given a narrow construction. It extends
beyond buying and selling to business activities carried on with a view to
earning revenue and includes trade in services: Ku-ring-gai (139, 159 - 160);
Adamson (235); Actors and Announcers Equity Association of Australia v
Fontana Films Pty Ltd [1982] HCA 23; (1982) 150 CLR 169, 184 - 185, 203;
Bevanere Pty Ltd v Lubidineuse [1985] FCA 134; (1985) 7 FCR 325, 330;
Quickenden [101].
(4) The making of a profit is not an essential prerequisite to trade, but it is a
usual concomitant: St George County Council (539, 563, 569); Ku-ring-gai
(140, 167); Adamson (219); E (343, 345); Pellow [28].
(5) The ends which a corporation seeks to serve by trading are irrelevant to its
description: St George County Council (543, 569); Ku-ring-gai (160); State
Superannuation Board (304 - 306); E (343). Consequently, the fact that the
trading activities are conducted in the public interest or for a public
purpose will not necessarily exclude the categorisation of those activities as
‘trade’: St George County Council (543) (Barwick CJ); Tasmanian Dam case
(156) (Mason J).
(6) Whether the trading activities of an incorporated body are sufficient to
justify its categorisations as a ‘trading corporation’ is a question of fact and
degree: Adamson (234) (Mason J); State Superannuation Board (304); Fencott
(589); Quickenden [52], [101]; Mid Density (584).
(7) The current activities of the corporation, while an important criterion for
determining its characterisation, are not the only criterion. Regard must also be
had to the intended purpose of the corporation, although a corporation that
carries on trading activities can be found to be a trading corporation even if it
was not originally established to trade: State Superannuation Board (294 - 295,
304 - 305); Fencott (588 - 589, 602, 611, 622 - 624); Hughes (20); Quickenden
[101]; E (344); Hardeman [18].
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(8) The commercial nature of an activity is an element in deciding whether the
activity is in trade or trading: Adamson (209, 211); Ku-ring-gai (139, 142, 160,
167); Bevanere (330); Hughes (19 - 20); E (343); Fowler; Hardeman [26].”
(footnotes and full references omitted)
[32] This summary was adopted by the Full Court of the Federal Court in Bankstown
Handicapped Children’s Centre v Hillman (Bankstown).
[33] In an earlier case of E v Australian Red Cross Society, Wilcox J considered
whether the Australian Red Cross Society and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital were
trading corporations. The Society supplied blood and blood products, generally free of
charge to the community, but received substantial government funding. The Court, in
considering the more than $44m received in respect of its blood transfusion services,
said:
“These were, of course, substantial sums. They were earned only because the
respondents are prepared to carry on blood transfusion services at a scale, in
terms of labour and resources, greater than that of many organisations which
are undoubtedly ‘trading corporations’. But I do not think that it is appropriate
to describe the gratuitous provision of a public welfare service, substantially at
government expense, as the conduct of a ‘trade’. It is pertinent to recall the
words of Stephen J in St George County Council: ‘It is the acts of buying and
selling that are at the very heart of trade’, and also to remember the distinction
he made in respect of the distribution of electricity free of charge. In relation to
the supply of blood, it seems to me that the first and second respondents do not
engage in trading activities. They engage in a major public welfare activity
pursuant to agreements with the Commonwealth and the various State
governments under which they will be reimbursed most of their costs.”
[34] I note that when considering the position of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,
Wilcox J found that the scale of the hospital’s trading activities were “substantial
enough” to require that the hospital should be regarded as a trading corporation. The
details of this aspect are explained in more detail in a decision outlined below.
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[37] In terms of the assessment of trading activities as substantial and not merely
peripheral, the approaches do vary to a degree.
[38] In Bankstown, the Full Court observed that “there is no bright line that
determines what proportion of trading activities is “substantial””. In the more
recent decision of the Federal Court in United Firefighters Union of Australia v
Country Fire Authority (UFU v CFA), the Full Court adopted the approach to the
characterisation of trading activities as summarised in Lawrence and considered the
revenue producing activities in order to assess the cumulative impact of those
activities upon that assessment. In terms of the cumulative assessment, Murphy J at
first instance in that matter observed:
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“[92] The term “substantial” is imprecise but it at least encompasses
trading amounts that are “not so small as to be trivial”: Quickenden at [51].
In that case the majority treated substantial and nontrivial as synonymous. In
the present case the CFA contends that their trading activities are peripheral,
insignificant or otherwise incidental. These terms are drawn from the various
cases: see for “peripheral” Adamson at 208 per Barwick CJ; State
Superannuation Board at 304 per Mason, Murphy and Deane JJ; for
“incidental” Adamson at 234 per Mason J; for “significant” see Adamson at
233 per Mason J; E v Australian Red Cross Society and Ors [1991] FCA 20;
(1991) 27 FCR 310 (“E v Red Cross”) at 345 per Wilcox J; Quickenden at [47]
per Black CJ and French J.
[93] The ordinary meaning of these words is straightforward. The Shorter
Oxford Dictionary defines them to include the following:
(a) “peripheral” means marginal, superficial, of minor importance, not
essential or relevant to but subordinate to;
(b) “insignificant” means lacking significance, meaningless, devoid of
weight or force, ineffective, ineffectual, of no importance, trivial, trifling,
or contemptible; and
(c) “incidental” means occurring as something casual or of secondary
importance; not directly relevant to; following up on as a subordinate
circumstance.”
[39] Having found that six of the County Fire Authority’s (CFA’s) non-fire fighting
activities were trading activities, Murphy J found:
“96 The scope of these activities is broad. While they are secondary to the
CFA’s primary purpose I would not describe any of them as insignificant,
incidental, trivial or unimportant. For example, the road accident rescue service
is a specialised emergency service that the CFA has agreed to provide in
country areas, which has required special training of CFA employees beyond
the usual fire training, and which the CFA recognises as an important part of
the range of services it provides. The CFA has no statutory obligation to
provide this service and it does so at a cost to road users and the State through
the Traffic Accident Commission. I would not describe the provision of this
service as incidental to the CFA’s activities nor as a fortuitous or casual
occurrence of subordinate importance. Nor should its provision, viewed in the
context of all of its services, be described as trifling, ineffective, superficial or
marginal.
97 For essentially the same reasons the provision of fire equipment
maintenance services, consultancy on matters related to fire safety, the
provision of advice related to the storage of dangerous goods and the sale of
goods related to fire safety should not be seen as insignificant, incidental,
trivial or unimportant activities considered against the range of services the
CFA provides. I infer from the evidence that these activities are seen as
important by the CFA, although they are not its central or predominant focus.
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98 Nor do I consider that the revenue from these trading activities is incidental
in the sense of arising fortuitously or as a result of some other activity. The
income is earned deliberately by the CFA from these six specific sources and
on the basis that the CFA have special expertise or products of value which
they provide in exchange. Taken together the income from these activities is
substantial.
99 While the quantum of income from the CFA’s trading activities relative
to its non trading activities is small, I am disinclined to treat almost $13
million of revenue as minimal, trivial or insignificant. It should be seen for
what it is, a significant volume of trading revenue albeit dwarfed by the money
received from non-trading sources. The CFA put on no cogent evidence that
$12.93 million was insignificant to its operations, and no evidence was given
that it could be easily foregone by the organisation. Put another way, it is likely
that the CFA would be impaired in its capacity to provide services in road
accident rescue, fire equipment maintenance, fire safety consultancy or sale of
fire safety related goods, which it regards as important in the range of services
offered, if it was not able to charge fees for doing so.
100 Although the $12.93 million of trading income is plainly a substantial
amount in absolute terms, it is only a small percentage relative to the
CFA’s total income. Even so, I do not consider it is trivial or minimal in
relative terms.
101 In E v Red Cross the Australian Red Cross Society was one of the
respondents. Wilcox J held that its supply of blood and blood products was the
gratuitous provision of a public welfare service, substantially at government
expense, and was not a trading activity. The Red Cross received a total of
$44.9 million from the government in respect of its non-trading blood supply
services, and about $2 million from trading activities. Another respondent, a
major hospital, made approximately $18 million from trading activities and, in
the words of Wilcox J, that sum was dwarfed by a State government subsidy of
$112 million. His Honour concluded that the disparity between the money
earned through trading and the money received by way of government
subsidy was unimportant explaining at 345:
Trading activities yielding some $18 million per year can only be
described as substantial. It seems to me that the scale of the hospital’s
trading activities in 1984-1985 was such that it should be regarded as
then being a trading corporation.
See also United Firefighters’ Union of Australia v Metropolitan Fire and
Emergency Services Board (1998) 83 FCR 346 (UFU v MFB) at 354 to 356 per
Marshall J.
102 The CFA contends that both E v Red Cross and UFU v MFB were wrongly
decided in that they incorrectly applied an absolute test. While I consider that
the CFA’s trading revenue is plainly significant if considered in absolute
terms, I do not approach the issue that way. Considering its trading
revenue relative to its non-trading activities, the question is not without
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difficulty and is one of fact and degree. In my opinion the CFA undertakes
sufficient trading for it to be seen as “not insubstantial”, not trivial,
insignificant, marginal, minor or incidental, and I find that it is a trading
corporation.”’ [my emphases, endnotes omitted]
[21] In its decision on the appeal of Murphy J’s decision7 in UFU v CFA, the Full Federal
Court said:
‘[139] The CFA submitted that the error by the primary judge was crystallised at the
end of [102] where his Honour said:
“In my opinion the CFA undertakes sufficient trading for it to be seen as “not
insubstantial”, not trivial, insignificant, marginal, minor or incidental, and I
find that it is a trading corporation.”
In our opinion, the primary judge was considering whether or not the activities he had
found to be trading activities were, proportionately, significant and whether they
should be considered as peripheral so as not to affect the overall question of
characterisation. We see no error. In our opinion the primary judge correctly took into
account the relationship between the trading activities and the non-trading activities in
order to evaluate whether the trading activities were “independent” of the non-trading
and thus might affect the characterisation of the corporation.’8
[22] The case authorities use many different adjectives to describe the volume of trading
activity that will be sufficient to characterise a corporation as a trading corporation. However,
it is tolerably clear that when determining if a corporation’s trading activities are ‘substantial’
or ‘significant’ enough, it is not correct to look only at the value of those activities in absolute
dollar terms. But nor is it correct to wholly disregard that and look only at their value relative
to the value of the corporation’s activities overall. Rather, some happy medium is required –
an assessment that takes into account both the absolute and relative volume of the
corporation’s trading activities. I understand this to be the ‘question [that] is not without
difficulty’9 to which Murphy J refers.
[23] RMS’ total funding for the 2016-17 financial year was $6.47 billion,10 of which $0.9
billion comprised ‘own source funds’ and the balance was funding from the New South Wales
State government and Federal government.
[24] Of the activities from which its ‘own source funds’ were derived, RMS conceded that
the following were trading activities:
Line Item Amount ($) % of Revenue
Special plates11 118,892,278 1.84%
Advertising revenue 16,280,525 0.25%
Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS)
Sales
8,081,139 0.12%
Toll Compliance Services Revenue 22,764,107 0.35%
External Revenue - Fleet Hire 2,460,348 0.04%
OTTTO Bridge Climb 1,925,721 0.03%
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Line Item Amount ($) % of Revenue
Crash Laboratory 843,148 0.01%
Commission 611,757 0.01%
Special number plates concession agreement Fee 999,999 0.02%
TOTAL 172,859,022 2.67%
[25] Even on RMS’s own assessment, the total amount it obtains via its trading activities is
just under $173 million. To borrow Murphy J’s expression, I consider this to be ‘a significant
volume of trading revenue’ that cannot properly be characterised as ‘minimal, trivial or
insignificant’.12 This amount is 2.67% of its total revenue.
[26] There are three other categories of ‘own source funds’ that may be considered to be
derived from trading activities:
Line Item Amount ($) % of Revenue
Search Fees 4,155,301 0.06%
Lease Revenue – Wetland 29,319,521 0.45%
Rental income 25,516,391 0.39%
TOTAL 58,991,213 0.91%
[27] If these items are included, this brings the total amount RMS obtains via trading
activities to just under $232 million, which is 3.58% of its total revenue.
[28] As the Full Federal Court stated in Bankstown, there is no ‘bright line’ test that
determines what proportion of revenue has to come from a corporation’s trading activities to
warrant characterisation as ‘substantial’.13 There is no magic number above which those
trading activities must be so characterised. However, I do not think that I can entirely
disregard that in UFU v CFA, Murphy J found that the fact that 2.7% ($12.93 million) of the
Country Fire Authority’s revenue was derived from trading activities was sufficient to
characterise it as a trading corporation.14 The absolute amount that RMS obtains from trading
activities is significantly higher than the Country Fire Authority’s corresponding figure, and,
as a proportion of revenue, is at least similar.
[29] Additionally, as with the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in E v Australian Red Cross
Society,15 the fact that the revenue RMS obtains via trading activities is ‘dwarfed’16 by the
government funding it receives is of itself no bar to characterisation as a trading corporation.
[30] In all the circumstances, I consider that RMS’ trading activities are substantial enough
to characterise it as a trading corporation for the purposes of s.51(xx) of the Australian
Constitution. In my view, the revenue it generates through those trading activities cannot
reasonably be described as ‘trivial, insignificant, marginal, minor or incidental’17 in either an
absolute or relative sense. It follows that the employer is a constitutionally-covered business
for the purpose of s.789FD of the Act.
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Conclusion
[31] I find that the applicant is ‘at work in’ RMS. I also find RMS is a constitutional
corporation, because it engages in sufficient trading activities to warrant characterisation as a
trading corporation. It is therefore a constitutionally-covered business for the purpose of
s.789FD of the FW Act.
[32] I dismiss RMS’ jurisdictional objections. The applicant is eligible to make her
application for an order to stop bullying.
[33] I will list this application for mention and directions shortly.
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT
Appearances:
[There was no appearance for the applicant.]
F Gordon, counsel, for Roads and Maritime Services.
Hearing details:
Sydney.
2018.
May 15.
Printed by authority of the Commonwealth Government Printer
PR608233
1 Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) s.789FD(1)(a).
2 Bowker & Ors v DP World Melbourne Limited & Ors [2014] FWCFB 9227 [30].
3 Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) ss.789FD(3)(a)(ii), (iii) and (iv).
4 Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) s.789FD (3)(b).
5 Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) s.789FD(3)(a)(i).
6 [2016] FWC 7886.
7 United Firefighters’ Union of Australia v Country Fire Authority (2014) 218 FCR 210 (‘UFU v CFA’).
8 United Firefighters’ Union of Australia v Country Fire Authority (2015) 228 FCR 497 [139].
9 UFU v CFA (2014) 218 FCR 210 [102].
10 Exhibit 2 [8].
GON MMISSION WORK IR WORKS THE SEAL( THE
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11 This line item refers to revenue from customised or ‘vanity’ vehicle number plates, for which customers pay a premium
over and above the fee for standard number plates. There was no evidence before me about what proportion of this figure
was the standard fee and what proportion was the premium, but RMS conceded this line item comprised trading activity:
PN171.
12 UFU v CFA (2014) 218 FCR 210 [99].
13 Bankstown Handicapped Children’s Centre v Hillman (2010) 182 FCR 483 [52].
14 UFU v CFA (2014) 218 FCR 210 [83].
15 (1991) 27 FCR 310.
16 Ibid [132].
17 UFU v CFA (2014) 218 FCR 210 [102].
