To notify the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission of an industrial dispute you must complete and file in the Registry a Form 10 – Notice of industrial dispute. Urgent after-hours matters: If the registry is closed and you wish to notify the Industrial Registrar of an urgent industrial dispute, or make an urgent application to suspend or terminate protected industrialaction, you should call the after-hours and weekend phone number on 0466 745 897. -- -- What is collective bargaining?What is industrialaction? -- -- In the process of collective bargaining, industrial organisations with their members (employees), or employers, may decide to take protected industrialaction as a way of progressing negotiations.Industrial action is defined in the Industrial Relations Act 2016 as a "lockout or strike".A strike is when two or more employees employed or formally employed by an employer conduct in a certain way as part of the workplace bargaining process.A lockout is the action taken by an employer to close a workplace or suspend or discontinue the employer's business, or any branch of it.For further information about what is a lockout or strike, refer to schedule 5 of the Industrial Relations Act 2016. -- -- What is protected industrialaction? -- -- Protected industrialaction is industrialaction taken by employees who have been approved by the Industrial Registrar to engage in the action. Before the action is taken, notice must be given in accordance with the relevant section of the Industrial Relations Act 2016. -- The effect of being "protected" is that there are no legal proceedings which lie under any law for action taken for the protected industrialaction except for action resulting in: -- -- Defamation proceedings may also be brought for anything that happens during the protected industrialaction. -- If the protected industrialaction is the lockout of an employee by the employer then it is lawful for the employer to refuse to pay the employee for the period of the lockout. -- -- When is an application for protected industrialaction made? -- -- In order for industrialaction to be protected industrialaction for a proposed bargaining instrument it must first meet the requirements as set out in section 233 of the Industrial Relations Act 2016. -- For employees, prior to making such an application, the relevant employee organisation will seek its member’s democratic views about the type of proposed industrialaction to be taken. If the majority of members agree to take protected industrialaction then the employee organisation will make application to the Registrar to have the proposed industrialaction approved under section 235 of the Industrial Relations Act 2016. -- For information about the process in taking protected industrialaction please see: