Working Papers
New Industrial Relations Procedures and Work Reform in Australian Shipping 1982-1990
Richard Morris,
Working Paper No.1 (May 1990)
Negotiating Structural Efficiency: The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales
Ian Grey
Working Paper No.2 (May 1990)
Another Productivity Paradox? The Accord and Recent Productivity Trends in Australian Manufacturing
John Burgess
Working Paper No.3 (July 1990)
Defining the 'Workplace' and Workplace Industrial Relations
Diana Kelly
Working Paper No.4
Payment Systems and Workplace Industrial Relations in Australian Manufacturing Industry: An Historical Overview
Chris Wright
Working Paper No.5 (September 1990)
The Closed Shop Revisited: An Essay on Method
Flora Gill and Jon Zappala
Working Paper No.6 (October 1990)
Occupational Health and Safety: Challenges for Industrial Relations
Steven Deutsch
Working Paper No. 7 (October 1990
The Closed Shop Help or Hindrance for the Union Movement
Gianni Zappala
Working Paper No.9 (May 1991)
Award Restructuring in the Electricity Trust of South Australia
M.L.MacIntosh
Working Paper No.10 (June 1991)
Teaching Industrial Relations in TAFE
Robyn Alexander
Working Paper No.11 (June 1991)
Productivity and Industrial Relations: Case Studies in the Australian and Swedish Automotive Components Industries
Russell Lansbury and Olle Hammarstrom
Working Paper No.12 (June 1991)
A New Framework for the Closed Shop in Australian Industrial Relations
Gianni Zappala
Working Paper No.13 (July 1991)
Recent Trends in Industrial Relations and Human Resources Policies and Practices: The Australian Experience
Russell Lansbury and John Niland
Working Paper No.23 (December 1992)
EnterpriseBargaining: Experiences from New Zealand Workplaces
Papers from a Conference: October 1992
Working Paper No.24 (February 1993)
Emerging Training Patterns: Productive, Equitable?
Anne Junor,
Working Paper No. 25 (April 1993)
Efficiency and Equity at Work: The Need for Labour Market Regulation in Australia
John Buchanan & Ron Callus
Working Paper No. 26 (April 1993)
Muted Sirens; Demarcations and union coverage in the Australian Coal Industry
Michael Wright
Working Paper No. 27 (May 1993)
Whatever Happened to Apprenticeship Training?
Howard Gospel
Working Paper No. 28 (July 1993)
Women and Training: Education in the Workforce - Literature Review
Martha Knox and Richard Pickersgill,
Working Paper No.29 (August 1993)
Arbitration and Enterprise Bargaining: The Future Role of the Commission Proceedings from a Conference held in Sydney: July 1993
Working Paper No.30 (November 1993)
Progress or Decline: Recent Developments of Worklife Policies in Sweden and Australia
Olle Hammarstrom and Ruth Hammarstrom
Working Paper No.14 (July 1991)
Award Restructuring in the Road Transport Industry
Mark Bray
Working Paper No.15 (July 1991)
Government Policy on Restructuring the Labour Market: New Zealand
Peter Brosnan and David Rea
Working Paper No.16 (August 1992)
Trade Unions in New Zealand and Economic Restructuring
Pat Walsh
Working Paper No. 17 (August 1991)
Mapping the Extent of Compulsory Unionism in Australia
Gianni Zappala
Working Paper No.18 (September 1991)
Waterfront Reform in Britain and Australia - in Practice and in Principle
Peter Turnbull
Working Paper No. 19 (September 1991)
The Background to Industrial Relations Reform: The Early Years of 'Industrial Relations' as a Policy Field in Australia
Richard Morris
Working Paper No. 20 (December 1991)
The Practice of Joint Consultation in Australia - A Preliminary Analysis of
Mick Marchington
Working Paper No.21 (January 1992)
Retraining, Redeployment & Retrenchment Practices - A Review of Recent Overseas Literature
John Buchanan and Deborah Campbell
Working Paper No.22 (July 1992)
Occupational Health and Safety Committees in NSW: An Analysis of the AWIRS Data
Brad Pragnell
Working Paper No. 31 (March 1994)
Job Design and New Production Concepts in Australian Industry: A Re-evaluation of the 1970s and 1980s
Chris Wright
Working Paper No. 32 (March 1994
Equity Under Enterprise Bargaining
Edited by Suzanne Hammond
Working Paper No. 33 (June 1994)
EnterpriseBargaining and the Implications for Occupational Health and Safety
Kathryn Heiler
Working Paper No. 34 (October 1994)
Labour Law, Organisational Restructuring and Atypical Work : The Emerging Issues
7th Annual Labour Law Conference Proceedings
Working Paper No. 58 (September 1999)
Mapping Enterprise Agreements in the NSW and Queensland Coal Industry
Working Paper No. 35 (May 1995)
Outsourcing and Human Resource Management: A discussion starter
Gianni Zappala
Working Paper No. 60 (April 2000)
Delivering Training Reform: The Critical Role of Employers and the Workplace
Edited by Merilyn Bryce
Working Paper 36 (July 1995)
Unions 2001 Report: The Implications for Employers
Edited by Merilyn Bryce
Working Paper No 37 (1995)
Federal Labour Law and The New Uses For Corporations Power
Prof Andrew Stewart, 8th Annual Labour Law Conference Proceedings:
Key Developments in Labour Law
Working Paper No. 61 (June 2000)
Kennett's Industrial Relations Legacy: the impact of deregulation on earnings in Victoria
Ian Watson
Working Paper No. 62 (January 2001)
Globalisation and the Impact on the World of Work
Working Paper No 38 (1995)
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.
Final Report on the 1999 Workplace Agreements Survey
Working Paper No. 63 (October 2000)
Individual Contracts: Beyond Enterprise Bargaining?
Jonathon Hamberger
Working Paper 39 (1996)
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
Paul J Gollan, Ray Markey and Iain Ross
Working Paper No. 64 (February 2001)
Do individual and collective agreements make a difference?
Dick Grozier
Working Paper No. 65, (February 2001)
Industrial Relations Policy Under the Microscope
Working Paper 40 (1996)
Edited by Merilyn Bryce
Papers from a conference held in December 1995
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
Alain Mounier
Working Paper No. 66 (March 2001)
A Failed Experiment?: Enterprise Bargaining under the New South Wales Industrial Relations Act, 1991
Brad Pragnell and Michael O'Donnell
Working Paper 41
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?
Kristin van Barneveld and Betty Arsovska
Working Paper No. 67 (May 2001)
Informed Consent in Agreement Making Under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (CTH)
Iain Ross and John Trew
Working Paper 68 (June 2001)
Fitness for Duty - Recent Legal Developments
Jim Nolan and Kylie Nomchong
Working Paper 69 (June 2001)
Paid Work & Parenting: Charting a new course for Australian families
John Buchanan and Louise Thornthwaite
Working Paper 70 (August 2001)
Future of Work: Likely long term developments in the restructuring of Australian IR
Paul Gollan, Richard Pickersgill and Gabrielle Sullivan,
Working Paper No. 43 (1996)
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
Dr Chris Briggs, Jim Nolan and Kathryn Heiler
Working Paper 71 (September 2001)
Employee Relations in the Construction Industry
Susan McGrath Champ
Working Paper No. 44 (1996)
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
Humphrey McQueen
Working Paper 72 (November 2001)
Skills Formation in the Construction Industry:Lessons from some recent innovations
John Buchanan and Gabrielle Sullivan
Working Paper No. 45 (1996)
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
Gillian Considine and Ron Callus
Working Paper 73 (February 2002)
Towards a New Classification System for Australian Unions
Richard Hall and Bill Harley
Working Paper No. 46 (1997)
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
Phil Toner
Working Paper 74 (March 2002)
A Profile of Low Wage Employees
John Buchanan and Ian Watson
Working Paper No. 47
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:
- how many employees are likely to be affected by the claim
- the key characteristics of these employees
- the nature of their current expenditure patterns
- how they would use any additional money earned as a result of the claim
New Rights & Remedies for Individual Employees:Implications for Employers and Unions
Annual Labour Law Conference (1997)
Working Paper No. 48
Awards, Certified Agreements and AWAs - Some reflections
David H Plowman
Working Paper 75 (April 2002)
Individual Contracts and Workplace Relations
edited by Andrew Frazer, Ron McCallum & Paul Ronfeldt
Working Paper No. 50 (1997)
Industrial Relations Under the NSW System: Emerging Issues and Challenges
Working Paper No.53 (1998)
Labour hire in australia: motivation, dynamics and prospects
Dr Richard Hall
Working Paper 76 (April 2002)
Gender Equity and Enterprise Bargaining
Working Paper No. 57 (July 1999)
Improving occupational health and safety information for immigrant workers in NSW
Caroline Alcors
Working Paper 78 (August 2002)
Work - family balance: international research on employee preferences
Louise Thornthwaite, Working Time Today conference paper
Working Paper 79 (September 2002)
Managing Individual Workplace Grievances and Disciplinary Procedures
Therese Mac Dermott
Working Paper 80 (November 2002)
Drugs and alcohol management and testing standards in Australian workplaces: avoiding that
Kathryn Heiler
Working Paper 81 (February 2003)
Australian employees' attitudes towards Unions
Sue Bearfield
Working Paper 82 (March 2003)
Flexibility vs Collective Bargaining?: Australia during the 1980s and 1990s
Nick Wailes and Russell D Lansbury
Working Paper No. 49 (1997)
Learning experiences of students from low-income families
Gillian Considine and Dr Ian Watson
Working Paper 83 (April 2003)
Bullying and harassment in the workplace
Therese MacDermott
Working Paper 84 (May 2003)
acirrt/ABL agreements making survey - analysis of results
Tanya Bretherton and Dr Richard Hall
Working Paper 85 (June 2003)
Quality of working life
Sue Bearfield
Working Paper 86 (September 2003)
Knowledge management in the new business environment
Dr Richard Hall
Working Paper 87 (October 2003)
The 12 Hour Workday: Emerging Issues
edited by Kathryn Heiler
Working Paper No. 51 (1998)
Simply the Best: Workplaces in Australia
Dr Daryll Hull & Vivienne Read
Working Paper 88 (December 2003)
Corporate citizenship and human resource management
Dr Gianni Zappalą
Working Paper 89 (February 2004)
Legal Developments Affecting Human Resource Management in Australia
Working Paper No. 52 (1998)
A needle in a haystack. Do increases in the minimum wage cause employment losses?
Dr Ian Watson
Working Paper 90 (March 2004)
Taxation and the Labour Market
Working Paper No. 55 (December 1998)
Creating markets or decent jobs? Group Training and the future of work
Justine Evesson and John Buchanan
Working Paper 91 (April 2004)
Dairy: Employment for the future - Towards an employment strategy
Mark Cole
Working Paper 92 (April 2004)
Casting a Little More Light...Do We Really Know What Enterprise Bargaining has meant for Women's Wages in Australia?
Working Paper No. 56 (July 1999)
Contented Casuals in Inferior Jobs? Reassessing Casual Employment in Australia
Ian Watson
Working Paper 94 (September 2004)
Lockout Law in Australia: Into the Mainstream?
Dr Chris Briggs
Working Paper 95 (December 2004)
Paradoxes of significance: Australian casualisation and labour productivity
Dr John Buchanan
Working Paper 93 (July 2004)
The Survival and Decline of the Apprenticeship System in the Australian and UK Construction Industries
Phillip Toner
Working Paper 96 (March 2005)
The evolution of workplace bargaining and the labour contract in Australia: from Niland to Workchoices
Jane Romeyn