Good Morning,

Welcome to the September edition of The New Workplace.

This month has been another exciting month at FCB Group, with Jodi Dickson (FCB HR) conducting the first of her specialised workshops for HR professionals since joining the team. The two highly successful metrics seminars ran in Melbourne and Sydney, with participants taking away a wealth of data and tools to assist them. In this month's article Jodi provides further insight into effective employee communication.

Also, in our July edition, we announced FCB Technology's enableHR had been named in the top 100 innovative products in Australia. We are now proud to announce enableHR has in fact gone even better, being voted in the top 30! This month's FCB Technology update outlines how the team will be building on this success, co-presenting a case study about the implementation of enableHR at Nationwide News at the inaugural Australian Human Resources Institute HR Technology Conference in October.

In this edition, our Workplace Law articles focus on two of the highest profile areas of emerging law under the Fair Work Act – general protections and good faith bargaining. Katharine Leitch (FCB Workplace Law) reviews the recent case of Louka v Centrelink, which highlights the scope of the new general protections jurisdiction, including the ability of principals to face claims from employees of their subcontractors.

Daniel Zeman and Brendan Milne (FCB Workplace Law) examine the development of good faith bargaining case law since the inception of the Fair Work Act, in particular the extent to which international law has - or indeed has not - influenced Fair Work Australia's application of the new regime in Australia.