Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 25 June 2012:

Can a list be provided detailing on how many occasions costs have been awarded by Fair Work Australia, including for each:

(a) the reason why costs were awarded; and

(b) whether they were awarded to the:

  (i) applicant or defendant; and

  (ii) employer or employee.

Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

Between 1 July, 2009 and 30 June, 2012 Fair Work Australia made eleven orders for costs, as detailed below:

Note: This information was obtained through an interrogation of the case management system. Because of the database infrastructure, the above answer does not include costs orders if any have been made concurrently with other orders in the same matter.