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New Industrial Relations Procedures and Work Reform in Australian Shipping 1982-1990 Negotiating Structural Efficiency: The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales Another Productivity Paradox? The Accord and Recent Productivity Trends in Australian Manufacturing Defining the 'Workplace' and Workplace Industrial Relations Payment Systems and Workplace Industrial Relations in Australian Manufacturing Industry: An Historical Overview The Closed Shop Revisited: An Essay on Method Occupational Health and Safety: Challenges for Industrial Relations The Closed Shop Help or Hindrance for the Union Movement Award Restructuring in the Electricity Trust of South Australia Teaching Industrial Relations in TAFE Productivity and Industrial Relations: Case Studies in the Australian and Swedish Automotive Components Industries
A New Framework for the Closed Shop in Australian Industrial Relations
Recent Trends in Industrial Relations and Human Resources Policies and Practices: The Australian Experience EnterpriseBargaining: Experiences from New Zealand Workplaces Emerging Training Patterns: Productive, Equitable? Efficiency and Equity at Work: The Need for Labour Market Regulation in Australia Muted Sirens; Demarcations and union coverage in the Australian Coal Industry Whatever Happened to Apprenticeship Training? Women and Training: Education in the Workforce - Literature Review Arbitration and Enterprise Bargaining: The Future Role of the Commission Proceedings from a Conference held in Sydney: July 1993 Progress or Decline: Recent Developments of Worklife Policies in Sweden and Australia Award Restructuring in the Road Transport Industry Government Policy on Restructuring the Labour Market: New Zealand Trade Unions in New Zealand and Economic Restructuring Mapping the Extent of Compulsory Unionism in Australia Waterfront Reform in Britain and Australia - in Practice and in Principle The Background to Industrial Relations Reform: The Early Years of 'Industrial Relations' as a Policy Field in Australia The Practice of Joint Consultation in Australia - A Preliminary Analysis of Retraining, Redeployment & Retrenchment Practices - A Review of Recent Overseas Literature Occupational Health and Safety Committees in NSW: An Analysis of the AWIRS Data
Job Design and New Production Concepts in Australian Industry: A Re-evaluation of the 1970s and 1980s Equity Under Enterprise Bargaining EnterpriseBargaining and the Implications for Occupational Health and Safety Labour Law, Organisational Restructuring and Atypical Work : The Emerging Issues Mapping Enterprise Agreements in the NSW and Queensland Coal Industry Outsourcing and Human Resource Management: A discussion starter Delivering Training Reform: The Critical Role of Employers and the Workplace Unions 2001 Report: The Implications for Employers Federal Labour Law and The New Uses For Corporations Power Kennett's Industrial Relations Legacy: the impact of deregulation on earnings in Victoria Globalisation and the Impact on the World of Work Papers presented at a recent conference highlighting a number of issues in the globalisation debate including the role of transnational corporations; questions of equity and efficiency; the new internal division of labour through source relocation; global marketisation; changes in labour utilisation; impact on local labour markets; internal competitiveness, etc. These issues were divided into two approaches, those dealing with the impact of globalisation on the nation and those dealing with the Australian response to globalisation and the anticipated 'social clause' inclusion in the charter of the World Trade Organisation from an employers' and union perspective. Working it out? Why employers choose the agreements they do - a survey. Individual Contracts: Beyond Enterprise Bargaining? This working paper examines why we are seeing a change from collective bargaining to a greater individual employer and employee focus at the workplace. The paper points to an increasing interest by some employers in individual contracts as an alternative to more collective arrangements. Topics include: Individual Contracts and Collective Bargaining; Individual Contracts in New Zealand; Individual Contracts in Australia; Developments in the Federal Jurisdiction; the Victorian System; Individual Contracts in Western Australia; Beyond Enterprise Bargaining; and Other Issues for Consideration. Additional forms of employee representation in Australia
Do individual and collective agreements make a difference? Industrial Relations Policy Under the Microscope Papers include: "How Important is Industrial Relations Reform to Economic Performance?"; "Wages - Current Trends and Prospects"; "The Equity Dimension of Policy". The Three Logics of Skill in French Literature A Failed Experiment?: Enterprise Bargaining under the New South Wales Industrial Relations Act, 1991 This working paper reviews the experience of enterprise bargaining under the New South Wales Industrial Relations Act 1991. When introduced, these reforms were in the forefront of the move to decentralise and deregulate industrial relations. Though more recently superseded by more radical reforms elsewhere, this working paper provides a timely retrospective as the Greiner/Fahey reforms are soon the be replaced the the New South Wales Industrial Relations Act, 1996. AWAs: Changing the Structure of Wages? Informed Consent in Agreement Making Under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (CTH) Fitness for Duty - Recent Legal Developments Paid Work & Parenting: Charting a new course for Australian families Future of Work: Likely long term developments in the restructuring of Australian IR This report contributed to EPAC's research on changing work patterns in Australia over the next 30 years. The three areas examined for the purpose of the report were: the future of employment and its distribution; the future of work organisation; and the future of IR institutions. It was generally agreed that trends already apparent, such as the increase in the average age of the workforce, the rise of the female labour force participation, the expansion of the service industries and the decline in labour intensive manufacturing would continue. However, opposite views emerged on certain key industrial relations and employment variables, including those that a continuation of the current trend to "individualism" in IR and work would soon see greater polarisation in income, living standards and working time of Australians. Fitness for Duty in the Australian Mining Industry: Emerging Legal and Industrial Issue Employee Relations in the Construction Industry This paper entails preliminary exploration of patterns and tendencies in subcontracting and enterprise agreements in the construction industry in NSW. It relates these recent outcomes to espoused goals and principles of enterprise bargaining. The paper endeavours to identify key issues and indicates potentially fruitful directions for further research and analysis. It argues that the wider range of options available for regulating IR is, on the whole, an enhancement of the previous system. However, construction is one among a range of industries, which appear not to be well served by the present form of enterprise bargaining. Killing Time: Alienation theories in an era of chronic under-employment and over work Skills Formation in the Construction Industry:Lessons from some recent innovations This paper arises out of a discussion group of the Construction Industry Forum, a group comprising of participants from large and small contractors, the government, legal firms, owners and the union movement. The group identifies skill formation as a key problem and believe the industry is facing an impending shortage of quality, skilled labour. The paper reports on a number of highly successful, innovative approaches to skill formation in the industry which have emerged in recent years. This paper identifies the nature and extent of these initiatives and identifies way to promote their adoption throughout the industry. The Quality of Work Life of Australian Employees: the development of an index Towards a New Classification System for Australian Unions This paper seeks to make both theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of the changing nature of Australian trade unionism. Its central aims are twofold. Firstly, it seeks to build on existing classificatory systems for unions, which have chiefly been typology's or functional classifications, by proposing a system which classifies unions on the basis of their strategic orientations and their environments. Secondly, the paper provides a detailed and comprehensive review of both the literature and the data concerning classificatory systems, both as a means to guide other researchers and to indicate the areas in which further work is required. The Occupational and Skill Structures of New Apprenticeships: a commentary A Profile of Low Wage Employees In June 1996 the ACTU lodged a claim for a Living Wage. This working paper has been prepared as a source document to help those concerned with assessing the need for and likely impact of the claim, especially in metal and engineering, textiles, clothing and footwear industries. Material relevant to clerks and cleaners operating in all industries is also provided to assist assessment of the likely impact of claims of employees working in these occupations across a range of industries. This paper contains material relevant to the following issues:
New Rights & Remedies for Individual Employees:Implications for Employers and Unions Awards, Certified Agreements and AWAs - Some reflections
Individual Contracts and Workplace Relations Industrial Relations Under the NSW System: Emerging Issues and Challenges Labour hire in australia: motivation, dynamics and prospects Gender Equity and Enterprise Bargaining Improving occupational health and safety information for immigrant workers in NSW Work - family balance: international research on employee preferences Managing Individual Workplace Grievances and Disciplinary Procedures Drugs and alcohol management and testing standards in Australian workplaces: avoiding that Australian employees' attitudes towards Unions Flexibility vs Collective Bargaining?: Australia during the 1980s and 1990s Learning experiences of students from low-income families Bullying and harassment in the workplace acirrt/ABL agreements making survey - analysis of results Quality of working life Knowledge management in the new business environment The 12 Hour Workday: Emerging Issues Simply the Best: Workplaces in Australia Corporate citizenship and human resource management Legal Developments Affecting Human Resource Management in Australia A needle in a haystack. Do increases in the minimum wage cause employment losses? Taxation and the Labour Market Creating markets or decent jobs? Group Training and the future of work Dairy: Employment for the future - Towards an employment strategy Casting a Little More Light...Do We Really Know What Enterprise Bargaining has meant for Women's Wages in Australia? Contented Casuals in Inferior Jobs? Reassessing Casual Employment in Australia Lockout Law in Australia: Into the Mainstream? Paradoxes of significance: Australian casualisation and labour productivity The Survival and Decline of the Apprenticeship System in the Australian and UK Construction Industries |
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