As a member of AMMA’s Workplace Policy team, Ruth’s key focus is to undertake research about and provide information on all matters relating to workplace policy in the resources sector and to assist the Workplace Policy Unit to address member issues and needs in a proactive and timely manner. Recent research Ruth has undertaken includes the AMMA Mining Industry Remuneration Survey.

Ruth also continues her long-term role as manager of AMMA’s online meeting platform and until May 2011, as editor of the AMMA Bulletin.

Ruth joined AMMA in 1995, initially as an Employee Relations Officer and more recently as AMMA’s Communications Manager. Over the years, Ruth has worked in all divisions within AMMA. She has undertaken research at AMMA’s initiative and on request from members, has been responsible for the production and editing of many of AMMA’s hard copy and online publications, including well over 150 issues of the monthly AMMA Bulletin, a dozen Activities Reports to Members (ranging over the years 1996 to 2010) and papers such as the Case for Ongoing Flexibility in Employment Arrangement Options in the Australian Resources Sector (2001 and 2004). She administered the AMMA website from its launch in 1997, overseeing several revamps, and the staff intranet from 2007 through to July 2010. As a member of AMMA’s Media, Public Affairs and Member Services team between 2007 and 2010, Ruth has also been involved in event management activities.

Ruth has a long association with the resources sector, having started out as a Personnel/Industrial Officer for Aberfoyle in Tasmania in the early 1980s. She has lived in mining towns in outback Queensland and west coast Tasmania and has a strong attachment to the mining industry.  She looks forward to the Victorian mining industry regaining its historic prominence.

Ruth has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and a Diploma of Education from Monash University and a Graduate Diploma of Business (HRM focus) from Deakin University.

Ruth is a member of the Australian Human Resources Institute and the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria.

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