North Coast Voices: Australian Fair Work Commission: Who's Who - a member cheat sheet for 2017 and other matters

Sunday 12 March 2017

Australian Fair Work Commission: Who's Who - a member cheat sheet for 2017 and other matters

The Fair Work Commission (FWC), formerly known as Fair Work Australia, is the Australian industrial relations tribunal created by the Fair Work Act 2009. It replaced the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) and a number of AIRC members became part of the FWC organisational structure.

As part of a four-yearly review of modern awards the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission handed down a decision on Sunday penalty rates for workers in hospitality and retail sectors on 23 February 2017.

For the purposes of this review the Full Bench was composed of:

Justice Iain Ross, President

Vice President Joseph Catanzariti

Deputy President Ingrid Asbury

Commissioner Peter Hampton

Commissioner Tim Lee

In 2016 the Queensland Labor Government made a submission to the FWC modern awards review opposing cuts to penalty rates, along with the ACT Labor Government, the Victorian Labor Government and South Australian Labor Government.

As did the federal parliamentary Labor Party (The Loyal Opposition) as well as the state parliamentary Labor Party in Tasmania , New South Wales and Western Australia.

The Turnbull Federal Coalition Government was notable by its absence in the list of submissions. As was the Coalition state governments in Tasmania, New South Wales and Western Australia.

A full list of submissions, including those by unions and industry/employer groups can be found here.

As this probably will not be the last time the Fair Work Commission decides to extend its brief to cutting the hourly rates of ordinary workers, a closer look at who is making these decisions is merited.

This is as much as I could glean to date concerning the current makeup of the Commission in March 2017:

Fair Work Commission President

Justice Iain Ross AO – Labor Government appointee 2012 to 2024

Vice Presidents

Joseph Catanzariti - Labor Government appointee 2013 to 2024

Adam Hatcher SC - Labor Government appointee 2013 to 2028

Deputy Presidents

Jennifer Acton – Labor Government appointee 1992 and then Labor Government appointee 2009 to 2020

Lea Drake – Labor Government appointee 1994 and then Labor Government appointee 2009 to 2018

Reginald Hamilton - Coalition Government appointee 2001 and then Labor Government appointee 2009 to 2022

Matthew O'Callaghan - Coalition Government appointee 2001 and then Labor Government appointee 2009 to 2021[resigned February, leaving April 2017]

Jonathan Hamberger - Coalition Government appointee 2004 then Labor Government appointee 2009 to 2024

Peter Sams AM – Labor Government appointee 2012 to 2021

Anna Booth – Labor Government appointee 2012 to 2021

Ms Ingrid Asbury - Labor appointee 2013 to 2028

Ms Anne Gooley - Labor appointee 2013 to 2018

Mr Val Gostencnik – Labor appointee 2013 to 2028

Jeffery Lawrence – Labor appointee 2013 to 2017

John Kovacic – Labor Government appointee 2013 to 2022
Geoffrey Bull – Coalition Government appointee 2015 to 2022
Melanie Binet – Coalition Government appointee 2016 to 2034
W. Richard Clancy - Coalition Government appointee 2016 to 2036
Lyndall Dean - Coalition Government appointee 2016 to 2037

Commissioners

Paula Spencer - Coalition Government appointee 2001 then Labor Government appointee 2009 to 2029

Bruce Williams – Coalition Government appointee 2006 to 2023

Anna Cribb - Labor Government appointee 2009 to 2019
Ian Cambridge - Labor Government appointee 2010 to 2033
John Ryan - Labor Government appointee 2010 to 2017
Peter Hampton - Labor Government appointee 2010 to 2025
Julian Roe - Labor Government appointee 2010 to 2017
Michelle Bissett – Labor Government appointee 2010 to 2022

Chris Simpson – Labor Government appointee 2010 to 2034

Tim Lee – Labor Government appointee 2011 to 2029

Susan Booth – Labor Government appointee 2011 to 2022

Donna McKenna Labor Government appointee 2012 to 2025
Bernie Riordan - Labor Government appointee 2012 to 2027
David Gregory - Labor Government appointee 2012 to 2019

Nickolas Wilson - Labor Government appointee 2013 to 2025

Leigh Johns OAM - Labor Government appointee 2013 to 2034
Tony Saunders - Coalition Government appointee 2015 to 2039
Tanya Cirkovic - Coalition Government appointee 2015 to 2028
Christopher Platt - Coalition Government appointee 2015 to 2026
Katrina Harper-Greenwell - Coalition Government appointee 2016 to 2033
Jennifer Hunt - Coalition Government appointee 2016 to 2038

[https://www.ausgovboards.gov.au/boards/fair-work-commission]

Additional members – can be found here.

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