WA’S industrial relations system has come under the spotlight this week with the State Government’s controversial IR Reform Bill being debated in Parliament and the Royal Commission into Corruption in the Building Industry rolling into town.
THERE is some good in WA’s proposed Industrial Relations Reform Bill, according to former Australian and WA Industrial Relations Commission senior commissioner Gavin Fielding.
A DISALLOWANCE motion has being raised in the Legislative Council of WA Parliament to try and throw out the WA Government’s small business registration regulations.From January 1 business registrations went up from $93 to $103.
SMALL business are turning away from Government agencies set up to help them and instead approaching their accountants, their bank or friends for advice, a survey has found.
AFTER about 10 years of industrial relations peace, the Pilbara region looks set to explode again.WA’s workplace agreements legislation has been credited with reducing industrial strife in the region, but that legislation is due to be superseded.
RECRUITMENT firm CPE has entered the labour hire arena by buying Victoria Park-based labour hire firm Actsum for an undisclosed amount.Actsum has about 100 people on its books and an annual turnover of between $2.5 million and $3 million.
HOPES of the WA Government changing its mind and re-routing the Mandurah-Perth line via Kenwick instead of down the Kwinana Freeway appear to be dashed.
PIVOT Group has taken over the “kiss of death” office in the BankWest Tower.The office was once held by Bond Corp (back when the building was named after it) and failed downstream iron ore processor Kingstream.
MOVES are afoot to unionise grape pickers and bring wineries both large and small under a new State Award.Wineries operate under an Award so old its terms and conditions are below basic legal minimums.
CHANGES to the Stamp Duty Act currently before Parliament, which include doubling the maximum penalty for each offence from $10,000 to $20,000, threaten to make things even harder for directors.
LENDERS are becoming concerned about their security after one mortgagee lost a challenge against WA’s Criminal Property Confiscation Act in the WA Supreme Court.
