“AS a regular user of Australia’s industrial relations system, the Australian Mines and Metals Association advocates for the creation of a separate, specialist and independent appeals body to sit between the Fair Work Commission (FWC) and our courts.
“Unsurprisingly, the proposal for a new independent appeals body is not popular with the commission’s president, Iain Ross, who recently told the NSW Industrial Relations Society there was ‘no substance’ to claims of inconsistent decision-making in calls for a new appeal mechanism.”
Click here to read Steve Knott’s opinion piece, published in the Australian Financial Review on 18 June 2014.