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Glossary

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  Abandonment of employment
  Adverse action
  Allowances
  Annual Leave
  Annual wage review
  Apprentice
  APS employee
  Arbitration
  Associate
  Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
  Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard (AFPCS or The Standard)
  Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC)
  Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC/Commission)
  Australian workplace agreement (AWA)
  Award modernisation
  Awards
  Bargaining order
  Base rate of pay
  Better Off Overall Test (BOOT)
  Board of Reference
  Casual loading
  Certified agreement
  Civil remedy provision
  Collective agreement
  Commissioner
  Conciliation
  Confidentiality
  Constitutional corporation
  Contract of Employment
  Corporate governance
  Decision summaries
  Deductions
  Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
  Deputy President
  Discrimination (direct and indirect)
  Discriminatory term
  Dismissal
  Dispute resolution
  Employee
  Employer
  Enterprise
  Enterprise agreement
  Entry notice
  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 (RO Act)
  Fair Work Act 2009 (“the Act”)
  Fair Work Australia
  Fair Work Australia (FWA)
  Fair Work Australia Bulletin
  Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO)
  Federal Court of Australia
  Full Bench
  General protections
  Genuine redundancy
  Genuine redundancy
  Gross pay
  High income threshold
  Income tax
  Independent contractor
  Individual flexibility agreement
  Individual Transitional Employment Agreement (ITEA)
  Industrial action
  Industrial instrument
  Injunction
  International Labour Organization (ILO)
  Junior employee
  Loading
  Loading
  Loading
  Long service leave
  Low-paid authorisation
  Mediation
  Member
  Minimum Wage Panel
  Model dispute resolution process
  Modern award rate of pay
  Modern awards
  Modern enterprise award
  National Employment Standards (NES)
  National Minimum Wage / Federal Minimum Wage (FMW)
  National minimum wage order
  Negotiation
  Nominal expiry date
  Non-ongoing APS employee
  Notional Agreements Preserving State Awards (NAPSA)
  Occupational Health & Safety (“OH&S”)
  Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO)
  Ongoing APS employee
  Overtime
  Panel system
  Parental leave
  Partnership
  Part-time employee
  Party
  Pay slip
  Penalty rate
  Personal leave
  Pieceworker
  President
  Protected action ballots
  Protected industrial action
  Public Service Act 1999 (PS Act)
  Redundancy
  Registration as an industrial organisation
  Respondent
  Right of entry
  Right of entry permit
  Shift worker
  Sick leave (personal leave)
  Small business employer
  Small Business Fair Dismissal Code
  Sole trader
  Superannuation
  Tax File Number (TFN)
  Time and wage records
  Trade Union
  Trainee
  Trainee
  Training arrangement
  Transfer of business
  Transitional federal awards
  Transitionally registered associations
  Unfair dismissal
  Unlawful termination
  Unprotected industrial action
  Wages and Allowances Review
  Workplace Authority
  Workplace determinations
  Workplace Ombudsman
  Workplace Relations Act 1996 (WR Act)