{"id":26446,"date":"2024-05-04T03:51:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T03:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=26446"},"modified":"2024-05-04T03:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T03:51:29","slug":"industrial-relations-achievements-in-nsw-with-more-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/industrial-relations-achievements-in-nsw-with-more-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Relations Achievements in NSW, with more to come"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Minister for Industrial Relations Sophie Cotsis has delivered an address to the Industrial Relations Society of NSW annual conference in Wollongong where the theme is \u2018A new hope: The next golden era of industrial relations\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a theme which encapsulates the spirit the NSW Government has taken over the past year delivering on the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Scrapped the wages cap.<\/li><li>Delivered public sector workers their biggest pay rise in over a decade.<\/li><li>Tackled the scourge of silicosis by leading a national ban on engineered stone.<\/li><li>Established a framework for a silica worker register to track and care for workers exposed to silica dust.<\/li><li>From July 1 the re-established NSW Industrial Court will provide workers with access to workplace justice and improved workplace safety with specialist judges.<\/li><li>Started the Respect at Work Advisory Council.<\/li><li>Established a cooperative way of bargaining for the state\u2019s public sector workers.<\/li><li>Increased penalties for serious WHS breaches.<\/li><li>Closed loopholes that allow businesses to insure against WHS fines as a cost-of-doing-business.<\/li><li>Toughened criminal penalties for assaulting retail workers.<\/li><li>Passed laws to ensure union and business representation on the icare board and put injured workers at the centre of care.<\/li><li>Making SafeWork NSW into a standalone regulator<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The NSW Government has taken enormous strides to fundamentally improve workers\u2019 rights over the past year delivering on key election promises and providing more for employees across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister told the conference unions and public sector employers are already undertaking mutual gains bargaining training to encourage cooperative and constructive bargaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added: \u201cWorking together we can move to a more cooperative approach to wage negotiations based on trust and good faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis will ensure that the best outcomes are available to the people of NSW.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the coming months the NSW Government will fulfill other election promises:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Legislating an industrial manslaughter offence.<\/li><li>Reforms to give gig workers rights at work and access to the IRC.<\/li><li>Ensuring local government workers have greater protections.<\/li><li>Introduce a portable long service leave scheme for community sector workers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Cotsis told the conference the Minns government has made the repair of industrial relations and work health and safety a key priority of our policy agenda and it will continue to build a better NSW.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/media-releases\/industrial-relations-achievements-nsw-more-to-come#\">downloadDownload as PDF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/media-releases\/industrial-relations-achievements-nsw-more-to-come#\">printPrint this page<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/media-releases\/industrial-relations-achievements-nsw-more-to-come#\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Industrial Relations Sophie Cotsis has delivered an address to the Industrial Relations Society of NSW annual conference in Wollongong where the theme is \u2018A new hope: The next golden era of industrial relations\u2019. It\u2019s a theme which encapsulates the spirit the NSW Government has taken over the past year delivering on the following: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/industrial-relations-achievements-in-nsw-with-more-to-come\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Industrial Relations Achievements in NSW, with more to come&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26447,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions\/26447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}