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Opposition backbencher Jamie Briggs has questioned Fair Work Australia President Justice Iain Ross's impartiality and claimed the federal government's motive in seeking to fast-track its proposed Fair Work Act amendments was to appoint Maurice Blackburn's Josh Bornstein and former ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence to the new vice presidents positions the bill would create, ahead of a possible change of government next year.
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