ACTU to consider anti-corruption measures CODES of conduct for union officials and better financial transparency will be on the table at a meeting of the ACTU executive this week. The executive will consider the findings of a report written in the wake of the Health Services Union (HSU) scandal, at its meeting in Melbourne on Tuesday and Wednesday, . A panel headed by former Federal Court judge Rod Madgwick is understood to have recommended formal codes of conduct for union officials and staff, an ombudsman to hear grievances from union members and better guidelines on financial accountability and governance standards. The panel also looked at how union officials' pay is set and how better to disclose the pay scale to members, as well as improving training for officials in corporate governance principles. Australian Workers' Union (AWU) boss Paul Howes, who is on the ACTU executive, told his union's annual conference last month that unions should be held to a higher account than the corporate sector and there should be "zero tolerance" for corruption. His union, among others, has already moved to publish officials' pay rates in its annual report and introduce financial management training. ACTU secretary Dave Oliver said recently there was no place in the union movement for the "gross misuse of members' money." The federal opposition has introduced a private member's bill to impose jail terms on union officials found guilty of corruption, on a similar scale to penalties for corporate fraudsters. The HSU has been suspended from the ACTU, pending an internal clean-up after investigations by Fair Work Australia into fraudulent use of members' funds.