Work, employment and industrial relations policy
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Work, employment and industrial relations policy |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 3395 |
Book Title | Australian Politics and Policy |
Authors | Werth, Shalene (Author), Ressia, Susan (Author) and Peetz, David (Author) |
Editors | Chen, Peter J., Barry, Nicholas, Butcher, John R., Clune, David, Cook, Ian, Garnier, Adele, Haigh, Yvonne, Motta, Sara C. and Taflaga, Marija |
Edition | Junior edition |
Page Range | 576-591 |
Chapter Number | 45 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Sydney University Press |
Place of Publication | Sydney, Australia |
ISBN | 9781743326701 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.30722/sup.9781743326701 |
Web Address (URL) | https://open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/9781743326701.html |
Abstract | The employment relationship – that between employer and employee – is at the heart of capitalism and a core issue for public policy. Governments create rules, policies and institutions within which employees and their representatives, and employers and their representatives, operate. The interest to governments when creating policy includes the form that bargaining takes, wage and employment levels, the nature and effects of contracting and the rights of workers – much of this boiling down to issues of power. In recent decades, major policy issues have included the federal Labor government’s Prices and Incomes Accords in the 1980s and 1990s, the Coalition government’s ‘WorkChoices’ legislation, the shift to enterprise bargaining, and developments in such areas as minimum wages and pay equity. In this chapter we outline the matters at stake, the players, the policy processes and some of the key issues. |
Keywords | awards, centralised wage determination, conciliation and arbitration, employment relationship, inequality, pluralist, Prices and Incomes Accord, safety net, union density, unitarist |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 350504. Industrial and employee relations |
Byline Affiliations | School of Management and Enterprise |
Griffith University | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q571q/work-employment-and-industrial-relations-policy
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