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CONTROLS & INSPECTIONS * Australia - Workplace Ombudsman to audit trucking companies
Federal Workplace Ombudsman Nicholas Wilson will randomly audit road transport companies amid claims they are not complying with the Workplace Relations Act...
Queensland,Australia -The Queensland Business Review -23 June 2008: -- ... Wilson will take the blowtorch to short distance trucking companies in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Tasmania, Queensland and metropolitan NSW. Wilson will focus on South Australia, Tasmania and regional NSW as part of an audit into long-distance haulage... Wilson says his office, upon identifying the industry to be at high risk of non-compliance, has sent letters to more than 9500 businesses nationwide warning them of their obligations... The auditing process is to begin in August and run to October. In that time, the Workplace Ombudsman expect up to 700 will be randomly audited... Inspectors will check minimum rates, minimum shifts, split shift provisions and allowances, payslips and time sheets. Wilson may also conduct follow-up audits 12 months after the initial campaign to ensure companies are still complying... Transport and storage ranks sixth on the list of industries with the highest levels of compliance problems, with 2535 claims over the past two years, according to the Ombudsman...
* Victoria catches first 'truck hoons'
Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -The Age -June 24, 2008: -- Two truck drivers have had the dubious honour of becoming the first in Victoria to have their prime movers impounded under hoon legislation... Shortly before 11pm (AEST) on Monday a truck was clocked travelling at 90km/h, more than double the speed limit... Less than an hour later, police detected a second truck travelling at 88km/h... Police were conducting an operation targeting motorists along the Monash (South-Eastern) Freeway inbound, between Toorak Road and the entrance to the Burnley Tunnel, where road works are currently underway... What is usually an 80km/h zone has been reduced to 40km/h while the works are carried out... The trucks will be impounded for two days... Region 1 Inspector Greg Parr said enforcing reduced speed limits during road work was intended to protect the safety of the construction workers...
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