Page 535 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 19 May 1992
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SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION
Papers
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister): Pursuant to section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989, I present subordinate legislation in accordance with the schedule of gazettal notices for a regulation and determinations.
The schedule read as follows:
Land (Planning and Environment) Act - Land (Planning and Environment) Regulations - No. 5 of 1992 (S56, dated 8 May 1992).
Public Places Names Act - Determinations - Nos. 50 and 51 of 1992 (S55, dated 11 May 1992).
Taxation (Administration) Act - Determination No. 52 of 1992 (G19, dated 13 May 1992).
CONFERENCE OF COMMONWEALTH AND STATE LABOUR MINISTERS
Ministerial Statement
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a ministerial statement on the Conference of Commonwealth and State Labour Ministers in Perth on 22 April 1992.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: I should like to report to the Assembly on the Conference of Commonwealth, State and Territory Labour Ministers which was held in Perth. It was held on 22 April, and I represented the ACT Government. A number of issues were debated at the conference in which the ACT has a significant interest, including wages policy, the legislation framework, occupational health and safety, and industry reform.
Assembly members will be aware that the direction of national wage policy in Australia is towards enterprise bargaining. The feeling is that, following necessary restructuring at the industry level, the increases in efficiency and productivity necessary to improve Australia's competitiveness must now be achieved through reform at the workplace level. Although the national wage principles of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission now provide for adjustments in wages and conditions as part of enterprise based bargaining agreements, little use has so far been made of the new principle. No doubt, Madam Speaker, the industry parties at the workplace level need time to adjust to the new processes. Also, the recession has not been conducive to experimentation.
There was discussion at the Labour Ministers Conference on how workplace bargaining might operate in the public sector, that is, among the direct employees of governments. While enterprise bargaining can apply to government business enterprises just as it does to the private sector, its application to the public service raises issues which have yet to be satisfactorily resolved. The ACT is awaiting decisions to be taken by the Federal Government regarding an appropriate model
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