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Order stopping industrial action premature: Bench
In a significant decision on how the Fair Work Act's provisions relating to time should be read, an FWC full bench has determined that a member erred when she imposed a 48-hour deadline on herself to order a halt to strike action rather than interpret the statute's "2 days" as giving her until midnight of the second day.
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