Lawyers warn on OH&S complacency

Lawyers are warning businesses be alert and proactive despite the States dithering on workplace safety harmonisation.

The country has effectively cleaved in two on the reform that had been agreed earlier this year by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania are dragging their heels to greater or lesser extent.
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IMA head discounts repo bikies report

The Institute of Mercantile Agents (IMA) has expressed doubts about a newspaper report that appears to allege that outlaw motorcycle gang members were working for repossession agencies in Victoria as a result of changes to debt collection regulations there.

The Institute represents debt collectors, investigators, process servers and repossession agents. The Herald Sun alleges that a “Hells Angels boss”, in plain clothes and carrying a baseball bat, had attended “an attempt to repossess about $1 million worth of machinery” belonging to an unnamed Victorian trucking firm “that is in receivership”.
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