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Issue No. 307 | 19 May 2006 |
Open for Business?
Interview: Out of the Bedroom Industrial: Cloak and Dagger Unions: Lockout! Legal: The Fantasy of Choice Politics: Labor Pains Economics: Economics and the Public Purpose Corporate: House of Horrors History: Clash Of Cultures International: Childs Play Culture: Folk You Mate! Review: Last Holeproof Hero
Laughing All The Way To MacBank Perth Apartments Go Like a Bomb Andrews Puts Contracts on Families Worker Dumped Over Casual Affair
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament
Pleased with Beazley What is Working Class National Day of Protest Tax Cuts Solidarity Independent Contractors Drought Proofing Higher Profile for Labor
Labor Council of NSW |
News Umpire Stumps Minister
The full bench put it right on Andrews, last week - comply with lawful directions or risk being shut out of considerations. The extraordinary ultimatum was delivered by the full bench after Andrews' solicitor provided the commission with a three-line statement that addressed none of the issues it had been given until April 11 to clarify. When the Commonwealth was granted leave to intervene in the state wage case, being run by Unions NSW, it was directed to supply the following information: - its position on Unions NSW's four percent claim - the material it intended to rely on to support its position - why it should be permitted to cross-examine in the proceedings Andrews' response ignored every direction. It read, in full, "The Commonwealth's position in respect of the claim by Unions NSW is that it does not support the timing of the claim. At this stage, the Commonwealth does not have a position on the quantum of the claim." The NSW bench said failure to "precisely identify" his position, or attempts to delay proceedings, were "unacceptable" as they failed to comply with directions. It warned Andrews that his status gave him no "special dispensation" to ignore Commission directions. "An indication from the Commonwealth of what view it takes of the claim by Unions New South Wales would be of assistance to this Full Bench in at least enabling us to have regard to the Commonwealth's preferred position in arriving at an appropriate outcome," it said. The bench warned Andrews that if he did not comply before the case begins, on June 5, it could revoke his leave to intervene.
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