At the Frontiers of Labour Law and Corporate Law: Enterprise Bargaining, Corporations and Employees

Abstract

Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet — For it is your business, when the wall next door catches fire. Horace No two areas of law-in Australia are moving with quite the breathless pace of corporate law and labour law. Changes under the Corporate Law Simplification project promise to be fundamental and far-reaching. And in Australian labour law, the enterprise bargaining regime under the Industrial Relations Reform Act 1993 is charting new waters. Lord Wedderburn has referred to the “unaccustomed proximity” of corporate law and labour law, and indeed, little recognition of the other's significance is evident in the reforms unfolding in each of these vital fields. This article focuses on the relevance of corporate law to labour lawyers. Its message, however, might just as easily be reversed.

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