The Australian Parliament recently passed the Fair Work Bill 2008. A primary goal of the Bill is to efficiently integrate the workplace relations services that currently span seven agencies, to ensure streamlined, accessible services are provided to the public.
The process for amalgamating the existing agencies is being managed by the Fair Work Australia Establishment Taskforce (the Taskforce).
The Bill establishes Fair Work Australia (FWA) and the FWO (collectively referred to as the FWA agencies). The FWA agencies are to commence operations on 1 July 2009.
The Fair Work Ombudsman will replace the following Australian Government agencies:
* Workplace Ombudsman (WO); and
* Some of the functions of the Workplace Authority (WPA) (e.g. Workplace Infoline).
Currently, intranets exist for the WO and WPA each with their own visual design and information architecture system. The WO and WPA intranets operate on a SharePoint platform and are located on a DEEWR network. The WO intranet is on SharePoint 2007 and WPA intranet is on SharePoint 2003.
A process is underway to develop a brand which will need to be incorporated into the templates, style sheets and visual design of the intranets.
The content from WPA intranet will be eventually divided between FWO, FWA and legacy WPA intranets. The content audit stage of the first project will need to take this into consideration and make the necessary recommendations.
Closing date: 24 July 09 3:00pm ACT local time
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