WITH the State Government’s industrial relations changes to become law this month the business community expects imminent action with regard to another pre-election platform – workers’ compensation.
INDUSTRIAL Relations Minister John Kobelke has reneged on a promise to release details of Labor’s proposed rewriting of WA’s industrial relations legislation.
BUSINESSES will receive a smaller reduction in workers’ compensation premiums than first thought because they will need to help fund a 5 per cent levy to meet the liability caused by the collapse of HIH Insurance.
DOES WA have a first class union movement? Or is it second class; or third, or fourth? Or perhaps fifth rate?It’s an important issue because the earnings, thus well-being, of some 900,000 workers plus their dependents, are at stake.
WA’S small businesses could soon be giving some of their employees a more than 20 per cent pay rise with the minimum wage rate jumping to up to $446 a week.
WA OPPOSITION Labour Relations spokesman John Kobelke has hit back at claims that his party’s industrial relations policy will open small businesses up to union intimidation.The Labor Party’s IR direction statement called for the scrapping of the Court
INDIVIDUAL workplace contracts will be a thing of the past under a WA Labor Government.The Labor Party wants to repeal WA’s Workplace Agreements legislation.