Act needs review, official says

THE Industrial Organisations Act needs to be reviewed and workers unions should play a role in this, a senior Government official says.
Department of Labour and Industrial Relations union industrial registrar Helen Saleu said executives of workers unions as the best people to provide views on the Act’s provisions that needed to be reviewed.
Speaking during the declaration of executives of the PNG Banks and Financial Institutions Workers Union yesterday, Saleu said consultations could be held for the review of the law.
She said the law needed to be revised as it had been enacted in 1962.
“We need to work together because you and I are the users of that law,” she said.
“Look through the industrial organisations Act and give me your views on which particular provision in the Act that needs to be reviewed.
“If it is outdated as expressed widely and openly, can we work together?”
Saleu said the executives could give their proposed amendments and she would consider them along with the one’s her office had identified for review.
She said the provision on the registration of a member of a union was one she was already looking at.
“It’s in our Constitution, the statute law is old, I agree with that, but we need to work together because you and I are the users of that law,” she said.
“How has it worked for us since 1962?
“Before some of us were born, that law was in place, let’s make amendments to the law.”