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Greens Policy/ Reintroduce Industrial Manslaughter
Nov 27th, 2010 at 5:37am
 
THE Greens' policy to reintroduce industrial manslaughter in Victoria will take workplaces back to the 1970s, employers warn.

The Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry said if the Greens policies were adopted, laws would become all about blaming the boss.

"Under the Greens industrial relations policies, we will go back to the bad old days of the 1970s, and the workplace will be like a scene from I'm All Right Jack, manager of VECCI workplace relations Alexandra Marriott told The Australian.

"By introducing an industrial manslaughter offence on top of these laws, the co-operation element will go and it will be all about blaming the boss for everything."

The Greens plan, if adopted, would also put Victoria at odds with Julia Gillard's efforts to harmonise Occupational Health and Safety Laws throughout Australia. Canberra is already locked in a bitter feud with NSW to push the national reforms through.


The Prime Minister has based her national model on Victoria's current occupational health and safety regime.

Ms Marriott said the current laws in Victoria were tough enough and the Greens policies threatened improvements made to workplaces. "The progress we have made in the workplace will be unravelled. While current Victorian OHS laws are tough, they make both employers and employees responsible for safety by working together."

Ms Marriott said she also had concerns about Greens plans to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner. "By doing this, they risk ignoring the allegations of criminality and intimidation in the building and construction sector," she said. Smiley

The Greens have also come under fire in the final week of the state election campaign for wanting to introduce a 30km/h speed limit in inner-city suburbs and disendorsing a candidate who publicly challenged the wisdom of shutting down the Hazelwood power station within four years.

Upper house Greens MP Sue Pennicuik defended Greens industrial relations policies, saying the criminal charge of industrial manslaughter would apply to employers only in rare cases.

"If there is gross negligence and gross recklessness on the part of the employer, you can kind of compare it to culpable driving," she said. "At the moment, where there is wilful neglect and negligence, there is nothing to deal with it."

Ms Pennicuik said it was employers' duty to provide a safe workplace and similar laws existed successfully in Britain and the ACT. Smiley
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Reply #1 - Nov 27th, 2010 at 5:43am
 
Reintroduce industrial manslaughter, and get rid of the disgraceful building and construction commission.  Another tick for the Australian Greens.                                                                                              Vote 1 Australian Greens.  The fair and sensible people. Smiley
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Reply #2 - Nov 27th, 2010 at 5:45am
 
Will they be locking up the company at fault, or just fining them?
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Reply #3 - Nov 27th, 2010 at 5:59am
 
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Reintroduce industrial manslaughter, and get rid of the disgraceful building and construction commission.  Another tick for the Australian Greens.                                                                                              Vote 1 Australian Greens.  The fair and sensible people. Smiley



It's about time the slack management get prosecuted for taking the WH&S of their staff seriously.

How can an apprentice end up in the pastry mixer and getting mangled to death in her first week in the job? The boss might have been a bit more careful if he knew he could end up on manslaughter charges.
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THE Greens' policy to reintroduce industrial manslaughter in Victoria will take workplaces back to the 1970s, employers warn.

The Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry said if the Greens policies were adopted, laws would become all about blaming the boss.

"Under the Greens industrial relations policies, we will go back to the bad old days of the 1970s, and the workplace will be like a scene from I'm All Right Jack, manager of VECCI workplace relations Alexandra Marriott told The Australian.

"By introducing an industrial manslaughter offence on top of these laws, the co-operation element will go and it will be all about blaming the boss for everything."

The Greens plan, if adopted, would also put Victoria at odds with Julia Gillard's efforts to harmonise Occupational Health and Safety Laws throughout Australia. Canberra is already locked in a bitter feud with NSW to push the national reforms through.


The Prime Minister has based her national model on Victoria's current occupational health and safety regime.

Ms Marriott said the current laws in Victoria were tough enough and the Greens policies threatened improvements made to workplaces. "The progress we have made in the workplace will be unravelled. While current Victorian OHS laws are tough, they make both employers and employees responsible for safety by working together."

Ms Marriott said she also had concerns about Greens plans to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner. "By doing this, they risk ignoring the allegations of criminality and intimidation in the building and construction sector," she said. Smiley

The Greens have also come under fire in the final week of the state election campaign for wanting to introduce a 30km/h speed limit in inner-city suburbs and disendorsing a candidate who publicly challenged the wisdom of shutting down the Hazelwood power station within four years.

Upper house Greens MP Sue Pennicuik defended Greens industrial relations policies, saying the criminal charge of industrial manslaughter would apply to employers only in rare cases.

"If there is gross negligence and gross recklessness on the part of the employer, you can kind of compare it to culpable driving," she said. "At the moment, where there is wilful neglect and negligence, there is nothing to deal with it."

Ms Pennicuik said it was employers' duty to provide a safe workplace and similar laws existed successfully in Britain and the ACT. Smiley




This really looks like a "smash and grab" policy on the run.
Little thought has been made to the ramifications, little in detail, lots of unanswered questions, instead just after a headline and then expecting the voters to presume the blanks. Treating voters with disrespect and disdain. The Greens have done that before, learnt from their menotr the ALP.
Oh yes, there's an election somewhere isn't there.
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Reply #5 - Nov 27th, 2010 at 6:24am
 
And you really think that this is a 'good' idea???
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Reply #6 - Nov 28th, 2010 at 6:27am
 
Well the Greens will be able to push this item through now with such a successful election outcome.

With no seats, wonder who will be proposing it?
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Reply #7 - Nov 28th, 2010 at 12:42pm
 
The greens are suppose to be the touchy feely good wholesome party that is for the environment and for those struggling at the bottom?, yeah well where were they when the rent in my 50 year old housing commission home went from $120 to $190 a week overnight? and now i really! struggle from week to week, i didn't hear them kicking and screaming for me or people in the same boat like myself.

there all the same, ptttf
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Reply #8 - Nov 28th, 2010 at 1:01pm
 
Well, it looks like introducing them in Victoria by the Greens is a waste of time.

How many seats did the Greens win Vic again? Talk about the Greens putting the cart before the horse.
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