Legislative Council - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
2011-10-19 Daily Xml

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Question Time

TRADE UNION OFFICIALS

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:25): My question is to the Minister for Industrial Relations. Does the minister believe in performance-based incentive payments for trade union officials? If so, does the minister believe that these inducements should be paid by the union as part of a salary package or by individual union members on a case-by-case basis direct to the union official or officials?

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (14:25): I don't know where the member is coming from but, no, I have no problem if the union executive wants to give union officials performance-based payments. It is their business; it is really no business of mine.