Fed: Labor's IR plan "radical": business leader

AAP General News (Australia)
04-26-2007
Fed: Labor's IR plan "radical": business leader

A business leader says Labor's plan to combine the powers of several industrial relations
bodies into one is radical .. and will create conflicts of interest.

Australian Industry Group chief HEATHER RIDOUT .. says the move isn't in line with
business expectations and is really just an attempt for Labor to get noticed.

She says an independent umpire is one thing ... but to put enforcement functions alongside
that seems to be a very strange combination of functions.







Last night .. Opposition Leader KEVIN RUDD announced more details of his industrial
relations policy .. saying the 100-year-old industrial relations commission will be dismissed
.. along with the Fair Pay Commission .. Office of the Employment Advocate and the Office
of Workplace Services.

Fair Work Australia will be created as a giant new body replacing all four organisations.

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KEYWORD: WORKPLACE BUSINESS (CANBERRA)

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