FED: AIRC head to be inaugral president of Fair Work Australia

AAP General News (Australia)
02-13-2009
FED: AIRC head to be inaugral president of Fair Work Australia

CANBERRA, Feb 13 AAP - The current president of the Australian Industrial Relations
Commission (AIRC) will head up the federal government's new industrial umpire, Fair Work
Australia.

Justice Geoffrey Giudice had accepted the government's invitation to become FWA's first
president, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard said on Friday.

"I acknowledge the decade of service Justice Giudice has dedicated to the Australian
Industrial Relations Commission," the deputy prime minister said in a statement.

The government hopes to have the FWA open for business by the start of July.

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