The Hon. MATTHEW MASON-COX:
Mr Watson, I refer to your comment that WorkCover is such a good place to work and that is why so many people want to work there. How does that statement stack up in light of the reports in the press about bullying and harassment in WorkCover? Indeed, your own survey [...]
“To have a genuinely national system there will at some point need to be a rationalisation of the ten-plus State and Federal agencies and tribunals. Industry, however, would have serious concerns with a new agency that diminished the functions and independence of key institutions within the WorkChoices workplace relations system such as the Australian Industrial [...]
THE gender pay gap is not just a ”women’s problem” and legislation should be renamed the Workplace Equality Act to ditch the stereotype, the Federal Government’s equal opportunity agency has argued.
It has also called for the power to target companies it believes are underpaying female staff and send in inspectors to conduct pay audits.
The agency’s [...]
