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Bill's changes to FWA member pay makes it harder to attract top lawyers; New mediation focus

The Fair Work Bill's severing of the link between IR tribunal members' pay and that of Federal Court judges, and the removal of judges' pension entitlements for presidential members, will make it harder to attract talented lawyers to the new institution, according to former senior AIRC member, Paul Munro, while Monash University's Anthony Forsyth says FWA replaces Work Choices' failed private ADR model of dispute resolution with a UK-inspired focus on mediation and prevention.

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