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WorkCover assesses all health and safety aspects of the workforce. This includes the environment by which an employee may raise a workplace safety issue and how to do so, the rights and responsibilities of everyone in the work place, including employers, employees and people visiting the workplace, the duty of care of people in the workforce, including planning for the prevention of accidents ...
The Commonwealth Ombudsman in Australia was established in 1977. [1] The Ombudsman can investigate complaints from people who believe they have been treated unfairly or unreasonably by an Australian Government department / agency or prescribed private sector organisation, including Australia Post, Centrelink, Child Support and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
In the lead-up to the 2013 Australian federal election, Tony Abbott promised to issue a review of the industrial tribunal. [ 3 ] In 2016, a dispute between owner-truck drivers in the road transport industry accelerated calls for the tribunal to be abolished, [ 4 ] and the tribunal was abolished on 21 April 2016.
He was replaced by NSW Secretary Tony Sheldon as Acting Federal Secretary. The head office location was moved from Melbourne to Sydney. National Secretary Sheldon led the union to success in the 'Safe Rates' campaign [ 7 ] with the passing of legislation to establish the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal in 2012.
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 ...
Australian law provides minimal protection, and has been consistently criticised by the International Labour Organization. [103] There is a basic right to join a union, yet the High Court has made protection for discrimination against union members weak by enabling employers to argue they did not intend to target union members with adverse action.
The Labor Council was formed by six unions in 1871, and originally called the Trades & Labor Council of Sydney.The council experienced rapid growth during its early history, with the number of affiliated unions tripling between 1885 and 1890, and total membership reaching 35,000 in that year, or 60% of union members in the Colony of New South Wales. [1]
Building of a road bridge at Goolwa, linking Hindmarsh Island to the town. Resulted in the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission. State Bank of South Australia collapse: 1991: South Australia: Bannon: It caused the resignation of premier John Bannon in 1992, and the crushing electoral defeat of the South Australian Labor government at the 1993 ...