Leadership WA has appointed Candy Choo as chief executive as the not-for-profit prepares for Dominique Mecoy's departure. Ms Choo will take over from Ms Mecoy from October 6.
Former UnionsWA head Owen Whittle has been appointed to the salaries and allowances tribunal, which oversees remuneration for senior public officials, for a three-year term.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Stephen Pearce, Matt McIntyre, Claire Wright, Stephanie Juszkiewicz, Samantha Craig, Stacey Wellings, and Rikki Hendon.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Holly Knight, Seamus Rafferty, Reece Wheadon, Jacob Whiteford, Jenelle Goddard, Adam Simpson, Owen Whittle, David Flanagan and Jimmy Wilson.
UnionsWA secretary Owen Whittle has taken up a new role as West Australian Music chief executive after 12 years with the state's peak trades and labour council.
ANALYSIS: Mark McGowan's ministerial reshuffle was in many respects a sideshow – real power in the government remains with a small group of ministers and advisers close to the premier.
Teachers, nurses, police officers, cleaners and public servants in Western Australia have been offered a revised pay deal but unions say it still amounts to a cut in real terms.
WA's teachers' union has accepted the state government's contentious offer of a 2.75 per cent pay increase and signed off on a new, two-year agreement.
Union figureheads have decried the state government's public sector wages policy despite the premier insisting it will deliver wage growth in line with inflation.
ANALYSIS: With close to a dozen industrial agreements under negotiation and a forecasted salaries bill of $16.2 billion, the state government is holding firm on its public sector wages policy.
Western Australia's parliament has cleared the way for industrial manslaughter laws which will enforce a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment for workplace deaths.