Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 12 April 2011:

(1) How many former Maritime Union of Australia officials are now employed as Fair Work Inspectors?

(2) Has any back pay been sought, or ordered and paid by foreign shipping companies to the Fair Work Ombudsman; if so:

(a) how much;

(b) to how many workers has this money been distributed;

(c) how much money is held pending the tracing of the workers' whereabouts; and

(d) given that these workers are likely to be overseas, what efforts have been made by the Ombudsman to ascertain their whereabouts?