Business and coalition figures have seized on the resignation of a senior member of the Fair Work Commission to call for a rethink on workplace laws. Commission vice president Graeme Watson launched a scathing attack in his letter of resignation, which came as a surprise to FWC president Iain Ross. “There is an increasing understanding in the business community that the Fair Work Commission is partisan, dysfunctional and divided,” Mr Watson wrote in the letter, which was copied to the federal minister Michaelia Cash. Mr Watson, who has been a member of the commission since June 2006, said it had become clear the workplace system was “actually undermining the objects of the Fair Work legislation”.
