Patron’s Night Dinner and AGM

We are thrilled to announce that registration is now open for the IRSV Patron's Night 2024! Be sure to reserve your ticket and mark your calendar for an evening of insightful discussions, a guest presentation, a two-course dinner, and fantastic networking opportunities.

The Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) vision ‘Working for Fairer Workplaces’ calls on workplaces to uphold standards so that workers receive the wages and conditions they are entitled to, and employers operate on a level playing field.

Anna will speak to how the FWO is implementing this vision, including through:

• collaboration and engagement with all parts of the workplace community to create and maintain fairer workplaces, and

• striking the right balance between education, advice and compliance that ensures the FWO is regulating the law in a fair, balanced and measured way. 

Anna's talk will be followed by an interactive Q&A with attendees.

Tickets are $99 for IRSV members / $150 for non-members.

Please join IRSV here to receive the discounted dinner price and much more!

Tickets include a 2-course dinner and a glass of wine.

Limited Tickets Remaining. Registrations close 27th November.

Our Guest Speaker: Anna Booth, Fair Work Ombudsman

Anna Booth commenced her 5-year appointment as Fair Work Ombudsman on 1 September 2023.

Anna has extensive and diverse experience in industrial relations spanning 45 years, working with unions, private, and public sectors. From 2012 to 2020 Anna served as the Deputy President in the Fair Work Commission (FWC); Australia’s workplace relations tribunal. She was instrumental in setting up the FWC’s Collaborative Approaches Program, formally known as the New Approaches Program.

Prior to taking up her role as Deputy President at the FWC, Anna was Chair and a non-executive member of the Slater and Gordon board. She held this role since the law firm’s listing on the ASX in 2007. Anna also sat on various boards, including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and insurer NRMA, as well as industry superannuation owned financial services companies ME Bank and IFM. Anna has taught at the Australian Institute of Management and lectured at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

During the amalgamation of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union, Anna was the first female and youngest federal secretary of a union. She joined the Australian Council of Trade Unions as vice president in 1991. During her period in the union movement, Anna attracted national attention by exposing the exploitation of migrant women workers in sweatshop organisations.

Anna is an accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System and is the Patron of the Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales.