Industrial Relations and the Government

Chapter Five From Workplace Bargaining to Workplace Relations: Industrial Relations in the Australian Public Service under the Coalition Government

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the implementation of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) (the ‘WR Act’) and the potential impact of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) (the ‘Work Choices Act’) within the Australian Public Service (‘APS’) — where the Coalition government has the greatest opportunity to influence the working conditions of its own employee...

Industrial relations and workplace adaptation

For persons with reduced work capacity, including disabled and elderly people, employment opportunities are influenced by access to work accommodation. This project aims to improve social partners’ expertise through industrial relations in the field of workplace accommodation, and as a result promote the inclusion of disabled and older people in the workplace. The purpose of this retrospective ...

Industrial Relations Centre

Teaching Comparative Industrial Relations

Introduction Mark Bray Comparative research is vital to the development of all social science disciplines. Indeed, many scholars have argued that the making of comparisons is the only method by which explanations of social behaviour and the development of theory occur. For example, the author of one comparative study of economic development in 'settler' societies argued: Only one analytical met...

Industrial Relations Research Association

The package of increases in defined-contribution pension plan contribution limits that Congress enacted in 2001 could have benefited at most 8 percent of plan participants and 3 percent of all workers. High earners were potentially more likely to benefit than low earners, and potential beneficiaries generally had higher earnings than other participants. The increase in the percentage limit on c...