Daniel McCourt was not looking for trouble. In 2016, just 22, the Englishman arrived in Australia on a working holiday visa, hoping to travel across these wide lands and earn enough to keep going. With experience as a bricklayer, a bartender and a kitchenhand, McCourt was confident he could locate work. When he found his way to Perth, he sent his résumé to Construct, a labour hire company supplying the construction sector.
It would prove to be a fateful job application. Almost six years later, McCourt and his union, the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU), found themselves in the High Court. “He was not a skilled worker, he was not a man with a plan,” observed Justice Patrick Keane when the case was argued via videolink late last year. In a decision handed down in February, Australia’s top judges reshaped the nation’s employment law. It will...
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