AU: Leadership forum will build networks among horticultural women

Peak horticulture organisation Growcom will hold a leadership forum for women in horticulture, at its office in Brisbane this Monday 3 August.

Attending the seminar will be 10 growers from a range of commodities including salad vegetables, avocados, herbs, pineapples, mangoes, zucchinis, apples, stone fruit and melons.

Also present will be representatives of Growcom, local government, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, Horticulture Australia Council and the state Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation.The aim of the day is to discuss how communication within horticulture can be improved in order to enhance horticultural women’s networks, support systems and their leadership and representative capacity.

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AU: Horticulture growers invited to hear about new IR obligations

Peak horticulture organisation Growcom will this week kick off a series of industrial relations information seminars for fruit and vegetable growers throughout Queensland. The seminars are designed to explain:

• growers’ new legal obligations under the Fair Work Act
• details of the new Horticulture Industry Award 2010 which comes into effect from 1 January 2010
• union right of entry laws
• how to avoid unfair dismissal claims
• strategies and options available to growers under a workplace agreement
• understanding ‘good faith bargaining’ and its part in workplace agreements.

Growcom’s IR Manager Donna Mogg will present the first seminar tomorrow [Tuesday, 28 July] in Bundaberg at the Alloway Country Club, Goodwood Road from 1 pm.

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