Harrison Wallace / Chief Human Resources Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Contractors who send crews to client mine sites tend to treat the host's camp as the host's problem. Safety law does not let a duty be handed over, and harassment and fatigue in camp are hazards a contractor must verify, control and, when necessary, pay to avoid.
Read the essayContractors who send crews to client mine sites tend to treat the host's camp as the host's problem. Safety law does not let a duty be handed over, and harassment and fatigue in camp are hazards a contractor must verify, control and, when necessary, pay to avoid.
Manufacturers report how many apprentices they take on. Boards should ask how many finish, who leaves in the second year and why, and how many senior tradespeople are paid to teach, because those numbers decide whether a trade workforce is being renewed.
Applying to the Fair Work Commission to terminate an expired enterprise agreement can shorten a dispute. In a town that depends on one plant, it teaches the workforce a lesson that outlasts any agreement, and employers should put the hard structural questions on the table instead.