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John Holland Rolled24 October 2005A CFMEU safety representative is back at work after the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission demanded he be re-instated. The Commission overturned a "notice of termination" national construction company John Holland placed on safety rep Rick Kavanagh earlier this month. Kavanagh was working at John Holland's troubled CTA Building site in Perth. CFMEU Industrial Officer Tim Kucera, who took up the case, said he had little doubt Kavanagh's dismissal was a direct result of his proactive approach towards maintaining safety. "Holland's conduct is consistent with the aggressive industrial relations stance that the company has taken towards its employees since the Howard Government offered building companies the promise of a union-free workplace," Kucera said. CFMEU CBD Organiser Mick Buchan said the CTA project had been plagued from the beginning by planning and scheduling problems and a constantly-revolving door of inexperienced managers and supervisors coming and going. This has led to significant cost blowouts, missed deadlines and increasing pressure on the company to justify its poor performance to its Board of Directors, shareholders and clients. "As we so often see in the building industry when companies like John Holland get themselves into trouble, compliance with the requirements of occupational safety and health legislation are usually the first obligations they sacrifice in the name of cost savings," Buchan said. "If not for the professional conduct and persistence of safety representatives like Rick Kavanagh, we know from painful experience that building workers are always the first - and often the final - victims of poor management safety practices on construction sites. "Within 48 hours of Rick's absence from the site last week, a CFMEU safety inspection revealed serious violations of OSH practice and the moral of CTA workers hit an all-time low." John Holland was in hot water last month over locking out safety inspections at a rural NSW mine and a serious injury at a Newcastle construction site. | |
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