Fed: NSW govt partly to blame for company collapse senator

AAP General News (Australia)
02-03-2000
Fed: NSW govt partly to blame for company collapse senator

CANBERRA, Feb 3 AAP - A Liberal senator today accused the New South Wales government
of triggering the latest company collapse.

About 340 former workers at the Rutherford factory in the Hunter Valley have been told
they will receive only $7 million of the $11 million owed them and may have to wait up
to two years for their money.

Senator John Tierney, from the Hunter Valley city of Newcastle, said criticism by NSW
Industrial Relations Minister Jeff Shaw of Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith's
package to protect workers' …