The eighth annual Workforce conference on industrial relations will be held in Melbourne this year on September 21 and 22.
This year’s conference will look at how the new workplace relations laws, which come into effect on July 1, are impacting on Australian workplaces. Topics will include how new good faith bargaining laws are playing out at the workplace level, and how organisations can ensure they are complying with the new agreement rules from January 1 next year.
Each year, the Workforce conference is attended by HR and IR practitioners from across the country and is a much-anticipated annual event.
The Workforce daily news service, published by Thomson Reuters, will host the conference.
Workforce is Australia’s longest running specialist source for industrial relations news, going strong for more than 35 years.
Visit the Workforce Conference 2009 website for more information about the event and to book your seats online.
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With such a long way to go towards getting worlds best pratice in place for injured workers I wonder when we will see conferences that actually tackle the real issues such as sustained and realistic outcomes in regard to return to work rather than the mickey mouse rehab that is in place now. It is pointless having all the legislation in place if when a worker is injured the best that can be hoped for is a bandaid soluition that for far too many people simply does not work however the bandaid keeps a great many others employed. No one it seems wants to admit that the current process of vocational rehab simply fails to do anything but frustrate injured workers who don’t know what the legislation even looks like or what it can or can not do -the exception to that is the ignorance of injured workers keeps a great many people employed for doing little more than paper shuffling.
So when are we going to get a conference where injured workers get to question the professionals who are very well educated but don’t know a great deal.
Yours in service,
Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson
Founder
Work Injured Resource Connection
Adelaide
South Australia
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Seems odd to me that none of the industry professionals who make a great deal of money out of the Work Cover process have bothered to leave a response here in regard to the comments of Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson from Work Injured Resource Connection. But then I guess it would be very wrong of the industry professionals to admit that they have been caught with their fingers in the bickie barrel. As an injured worker I am very aware of the way the Work Cover process goes, I am also aware that Ms McKenzie-Ferguson runs a volunteer association to help ease the burden of injured workers. I wonder how many industry professional even knew that about Ms McKenzie-Ferguson, still there is hope that one of you will sponsor her to this conference because every one who attends needs to meet her.
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