Former Fair Work boss calls for IR reform consensus

The looming review of the nation’s workplace laws should be as broad as possible and involve as many stakeholders in its establishment as possible to ensure any reform lasts in the long term, says the former head of the nation’s industrial tribunal, Geoffrey Giudice.

Mathew DunckleyDeputy Editor, The Age

Jul 15, 2014 – 5.38am

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The man appointed by John Howard to oversee the industrial relations system is warning the Abbott government against drastic changes to workplace laws without broad support.

Geoffrey Giudice was appointed president of the then Australian Industrial Relations Commission by the Howard government in 1997 and stepped down from its successor Fair Work Australia in 2012.

Mathew Dunckley is deputy editor and investigations editor at The Age. He was previously digital editor at the Age, national business editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and Melbourne bureau chief for the Australian Financial Review.