Industrial Relations Act 1996

The Commission has the following functions—

setting remuneration and other conditions of employment,

resolving industrial disputes,

hearing and determining other industrial matters,

inquiring into, and reporting on, any industrial or other matter referred to it by the Minister,

functions conferred on it by this or any other Act or law.

The Commission must take into account the public interest in the exercise of its functions and, for that purpose, must have regard to—

the objects of this Act, and

the state of the economy of New South Wales and the likely effect of its decisions on that economy, and

for the exercise of a function about public sector employees—the fiscal position and outlook of the Government and the likely effect of the exercise of the Commission’s function on the position and outlook.

Subsection (2) does not apply to proceedings before the Commission in Court Session that are criminal proceedings.