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The portfolio was established to be responsible for industrial registration, safety in the workplace, and the labour exchange, including the Government Labour Bureau. [4] Industrial relations in NSW was affected by the WorkChoices legislation and the Fair Work Act, which saw the Commonwealth assume responsibility for private sector employment ...
The Minister for Work Health and Safety is a minister in the New South Wales Government concerned with workplace conditions, particularly safety. [ 1 ] It is a separate portfolio from Industrial Relations but both are currently held by The Hon. Sophie Cotsis MP.
Logo of the New South Wales Government and its agencies. The New South Wales Government (NSW Government) is made up of a number of departments, state-owned corporations and other agencies. The NSW Public Service is organised under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013, with public bodies organised under various legislation. In 2009, most of the 100+ government organisations were ...
Labor (NSW) 15 October 1931 13 May 1932 Hugh Main Country: 16 May 1932 1 April 1938 5 years, 320 days Minister for Agriculture Secretary for Mines Minister for Forests Roy Vincent: 2 April 1938 13 April 1938 11 days Minister for Agriculture Albert Reid: 13 April 1938 16 May 1941 3 years, 33 days Minister for Agriculture and Forests Bill Dunn Labor
In 1932 the Department had a total employment of 2,425. By 1970, as tasks expanded, this number had grown to 11,497. In the later 1970s and through the 1980s successive waves of internal re-organisation led to more work being let out to contract with the total employment number dropping to 8,700 by the time the Department ceased to exist in ...
Department of Labor and Immigration (12 June 1974 – 22 December 1975) Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (22 December 1975 – 5 December 1978) Department of Employment and Youth Affairs (5 December 1978 – 7 May 1982) Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (7 May 1982 – 24 July 1987)
The first Department of Primary Industries was formed as a government department on 1 July 2004, with the amalgamation of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Mineral Resources, NSW Fisheries, Forestry Commission and State Forests. [8] Barry Buffier was the inaugural director-general of the department. [9]
The agriculture industry is one of the most dangerous occupations and has led to thousands of deaths due to work-related injuries in the US. In 2011 the fatality rate for farmworkers was 7 times higher than that of all the workers in the private industry, a difference of 24.9 deaths for every 100,000 people as opposed to 3.5 deaths for every 100,000 people in the private industry. [4]