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Major changes to safety-related entry rights in Queensland
In its first sitting week, Queensland's Crisafulli Government has "rammed through" legislation to reduce health and safety permit holders' entry rights, to address what it says is the CFMEU's "weaponisation of workplace health and safety", and introduced legislation to re-establish the State productivity commission.
Entry laws fail to contemplate WFH practices: Union leader
The Federal Government should consider "a right of access" to workplaces rather than a right of entry", to overcome the presumption that workers attend a physical location to perform their jobs that "ignore[s] the reality" of post-COVID-19 remote and digital work environments, a union leader suggests in a paper she will present at the Australian Labour Law Association conference next week in Geelong.
Permit extension rebuff for "kill threat" CFMEU organiser
The FWC has refused to extend an entry permit for a CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch Indigenous Organiser who is facing "very serious" charges of threats to kill and inflict serious injury, while it has foreshadowed that the process for considering his application for a new permit is "unlikely to be a straightforward one".
Opposition probes FWC on alleged internal bully/harass case
Shadow workplace relations minister Michaelia Cash has quizzed FWC general manager Murray Furlong on a "potentially serious" bullying or harassment allegation involving a tribunal member, and has questioned the ability of a former gang member to retain his entry permit while facing criminal charges.
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