Media Statement - 26th October 2007
Fair Work Australia, Labor’s new independent industrial umpire will have offices throughout Australia including in Darwin. The Darwin office will service the Northern Territory.
Fair Work Australia will be a new, genuinely independent umpire to oversee Federal Labor’s new fair and balanced industrial relations system.
Today, Julia Gillard, Shadow Minister for Employment & Industrial Relations together with Labor candidate for Solomon, Damian Hale and Labor Senator for the Northern Territory, Trish Crossin announced that there will be a Fair Work Australia office in Darwin.
Federal Labor believes Australian employers and employees deserve access to a one-stop-shop on industrial relations matters, rather than the alphabet soup of workplace agencies that currently exist under the Howard Government.
Federal Labor has today announced that local employers and employees in the Northern Territory will be able to rely on Fair Work Australia for:
- Information and assistance;
- Advice on bargaining and agreement making;
- Compliance & enforcement;
- Assistance to small business; and
- Help with resolving grievances and disputes.
Staff at the Darwin office of Fair Work Australia will be able to travel to businesses anywhere in the Northern Territory at their request.
Businesses and employees won’t have to go to a Fair Work Australia office to get help, officers from the Darwin office of Fair Work Australia will come to them.
Federal Labor will get rid of the Howard Government’s unfair Work Choices laws and replace them with a simple, fair and flexible industrial relations system for all Australians.
NOTE: The election policy paper: Labor’s New Industrial Umpire:Fair Work Australia is available under 'downloads; on this page.