Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Australia Workplace Relations Act 1996

Academic literature on the topic 'Australia Workplace Relations Act 1996'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 10 December 2022

Last updated: 29 January 2023

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Contents

Journal articles
Books
Book chapters

Consult the lists of relevant articles, books, theses, conference reports, and other scholarly sources on the topic 'Australia Workplace Relations Act 1996.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Journal articles on the topic "Australia Workplace Relations Act 1996"

1

Markey, Raymond, and Ann Hodgkinson. "The Impact of the Workplace Relations Act on Regional Patterns of Industrial Relations: The Illawarra Region of Australia, 1996— 2004." Journal of Industrial Relations 50, no. 5 (November 2008): 752–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185608094116.

Full text

Abstract:

Work Choices fundamentally restructured the Australian industrial relations system in 2005, by marginalizing the role of awards and the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, privileging individual contracts and restricting industrial action by trade unions. The Workplace Relations Act 1996 (WRA) represented a significant first step in this direction prior to the Liberal National coalition gaining control of the Senate in 2005. However, there has been no extensive workplace data of the kind produced by the Australian Workplace Relations Survey to take stock of the impact of the WRA. This study undertakes a stocktake of the impact of the WRA for the Illawarra region. It compares data for trade unions, employer associations, forms of employee participation, workplace reductions, industrial disputes and payment systems from the Illawarra Regional Workplace Industrial Relations Survey 1996 with a further survey in 2004. It concludes that while the WRA did impact on the region, the Illawarra nevertheless maintained a distinctive pattern of industrial relations in which the New South Wales State system was more influential. If this provides any indication of the wider impact of the WRA, it offers strong reasons as to why the government proceeded with Work Choices.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Catanzariti, Joseph, and Simon Brown. "Major Tribunal Decisions in 2009." Journal of Industrial Relations 52, no. 3 (June 2010): 289–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185610365628.

Full text

Abstract:

The year 2009 has seen significant change in Australian industrial relations, in particular, the repeal of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 and its replacement with Labor’s Fair Work Act 2009. From 1 July 2009, a new industrial tribunal, Fair Work Australia, replaced the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. The decisions issued by Fair Work Australia (FWA) since 1 July 2009 have put the provisions of the Fair Work Act into practice and perspective. This article focuses on those decisions which have dealt with enterprise bargaining and the agreement-making process under the Fair Work Act. Those cases demonstrate that the new agreement-making process is procedurally complex, and that FWA lacks discretion to approve enterprise agreements notwithstanding some procedural irregularity. FWA’s lack of discretion in determining whether an enterprise agreement has been ‘genuinely agreed to’ is inconsistent with the discretion reposed in FWA in other matters, including in determining whether an applicant for a protected action ballot order has been ‘genuinely trying to reach an agreement’.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

O'Brien, John, and Michael O'Donnell. "Government, Management and Unions: the Public Service Under the Workplace Relations Act." Journal of Industrial Relations 41, no. 3 (September 1999): 446–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569904100306.

Full text

Abstract:

The paper argues that when governments seek to regulate the working conditions and wages of their own employees in n decentralising industrial environment there is potential for tension between the roles of government as employer ; as policy generator and as financial controller. The paper discusses the federal coalition govern ment's agenda in the Australian Public Service under tbe Workplace Relations Act 1996, and the potential for tensions to arise from a process that simultaneously insists on oversight from the centre and requires the exercise of greater responsibility by agency managements. Moreover; the paper examines the ability of the Community and Public Sector Union to retain its legitimacy at a workplace level in this contradictory environ ment, and its capacity to counter managerial attempts to marginalise the union during the first round of agreement making.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Pocock, Barbara, Jude Elton, Alison Preston, Sara Charlesworth, Fiona MacDonald, Marian Baird, Rae Cooper, and Bradon Ellem. "The Impact of `Work Choices' on Women in Low Paid Employment in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis." Journal of Industrial Relations 50, no. 3 (June 2008): 475–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185608090001.

Full text

Abstract:

This article summarizes the effects of the Howard Government's `Work Choices' amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 1996, based on qualitative analysis of its impact on 121 low paid women workers. The main effects of the regulatory changes are on job security, income, voice, working time and redundancy pay. The analysis draws attention to the nexus between protection from unfair dismissal and security of working time and employee voice: many of those interviewed in the study had lost access to protection from unfair dismissal and as a consequence could no longer effectively influence their working hours, or request flexibility. Employer prerogative was perceived to have strengthened in many of their workplaces, with consequences for the intensity of work. The analysis suggests that improvements in minimum standards and job security are vital if low paid workers like those included in the study are to exercise voice over working time and avoid significant deteriorations in their pay and conditions.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Pyman, Amanda. "Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996 (CWLTH): Experiences of Five Australian Trade Unions." Journal of Industrial Relations 43, no. 3 (September 2001): 340–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1472-9296.00022.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Barton, Ruth, and Diane van den Broek. "Agency and the deunionisation of managers in an Australian telecommunications company." Journal of Management & Organization 17, no. 2 (March 2011): 210–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1833367200001620.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractDiscussions about deunionisation usually focus on lower levels of the workforce with managers seen as the initiators of deunionisation strategies. Managers, however, occupy contradictory positions as agents of capital, employees and possibly trade unionists. This can place them in the position of being both recipients and conduits in deunionisation strategies. The focus of the study is on Telstra, the major telecommunications carrier in Australia. Using a range of sources such as interviews and company and union materials, this qualitative research shows how between 1992 and 2000 Telstra's senior management's concerns over middle management agency prompted them to reframe the concept of a manager by using a set of managerial practices from the mining company CRA and the provisions of the Workplace Relations Act (1996) to individualise and deunionise their managerial ranks as a precursor to the deunionisation of the wider workforce.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Barton, Ruth, and Diane van den Broek. "Agency and the deunionisation of managers in an Australian telecommunications company." Journal of Management & Organization 17, no. 2 (March 2011): 210–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jmo.2011.17.2.210.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractDiscussions about deunionisation usually focus on lower levels of the workforce with managers seen as the initiators of deunionisation strategies. Managers, however, occupy contradictory positions as agents of capital, employees and possibly trade unionists. This can place them in the position of being both recipients and conduits in deunionisation strategies. The focus of the study is on Telstra, the major telecommunications carrier in Australia. Using a range of sources such as interviews and company and union materials, this qualitative research shows how between 1992 and 2000 Telstra's senior management's concerns over middle management agency prompted them to reframe the concept of a manager by using a set of managerial practices from the mining company CRA and the provisions of the Workplace Relations Act (1996) to individualise and deunionise their managerial ranks as a precursor to the deunionisation of the wider workforce.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Bowden, Bradley. "The Ties of Place." Articles 59, no. 3 (June 20, 2005): 490–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/010922ar.

Full text

Abstract:

This study explores the ways in which spatial configurations have shaped the use of contractors in the export coalfields of Queensland (Australia) and western Canada since the late 1960s. It is argued that the divergent employer strategies pursued after 1996—whereby Queensland producers dramatically increased their use of contractors while their Canadian counterparts did not—reflects their different spatial placement within the global coal trade. In Canada, the main problem was locational disadvantage due to distance from deep-water. In consequence, employers responded to falling prices by concentrating production in the area of greatest locational advantage. For Queensland producers, the issue was high mine-site labour costs. In this context, using contractors was part of a strategy to transform labour relations through the Workplace Relations Act.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Karaolis, Olivia. "Puppets and inclusive practice: Engaging all learners through drama and puppetry in preschool contexts." Teachers and Curriculum 22, no. 2 (November 3, 2022): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15663/tandc.v22i2.402.

Full text

Abstract:

Inclusive practice in education is supported by a compelling body of research (Cologon, 2019; Graham, 2020; Raphael et al., 2019) policy recommendations (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations [DEEWR], 2009; Te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga–Ministry of Education, 2017(Commonwealth of Australia. (2003)) and mandated by legislation such as the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992 (DDA) (Commonwealth of Australia, 2003). It is also reflected in the Australian and New Zealand Professional Teaching Standards (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, 2014; Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2017). Early Childhood Australia [ECA] (2016) states that “inclusion means that every child has access to, participates meaningfully in, and experiences positive outcomes from early childhood education and care programs” (p. 2). This paper explores what this means for early childhood educators and examines the concept of inclusion through the stories of two children and two puppets. A story that outlines how the perspectives of teachers shifted to create places of learning that were welcoming and more inclusive to every child.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Marshall, Shelley, and Richard Mitchell. "Enterprise Bargaining, Managerial Prerogative and the Protection of Workers? Rights: An Argument on the Role of Law and Regulatory Strategy in Australia under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth)." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 22, Issue 3 (September 1, 2006): 299–327. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2006016.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract: Since the beginning of the 1990s successive Australian national governments (from both right and left of the political spectrum) have overseen a shift in the regulation of employment relations from one based on centralised arbitrated awards to one of enterprise bargaining. The ostensible purpose of this policy was to facilitate the development of workplace-focused systems of regulation which were sensitive to the need for flexible production and employment systems in the context of the global economy. The evidence suggests that whilst many of the objectives of the enterprise bargaining project have been attained (particularly the goal of greater flexibility in employment systems), the law has been less effective in protecting the interests of workers, particularly their power to influence decision-making at the place of work. The major impact of enterprise bargaining upon the workplace, the paper proposes, has been the restoration of managerial prerogative which previously had been mediated through arbitration or the power of trade unions. Finally, the paper draws conclusions on the changing role of the institutions which regulate Australian industrial relations. Historically, Australian industrial tribunals have combined the features of judicial bodies and regulatory agencies. The paper concludes that a shift is occurring in Australian labour law from a mixture of self-regulation and centralised ?command and control?, to ?enforced self-regulation?, thus signalling a systemic and profound reorientation in regulatory policy and technique in Australian labour market regulation

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

More sources

Books on the topic "Australia Workplace Relations Act 1996"

1

Australia. Workplace relations legislation, March 2006: Workplace Relations Act 1996--renumbered. Sydney: Thomson, 2006.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Australia. Australian Workplace Relations Act 1996 with regulations and rules: Includes excerpts from the Trade Practices Act : with index. 5th ed. Sydney, NSW: CCH Australia, 2001.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Australia. Australian Workplace Relations Act 1996 with regulations and rules: Includes excerpts from the Trade Practices Act : with index. 3rd ed. Sydney, NSW: CCH Australia, 1999.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Workplace relations and other legislation amendment bill 1996, no. ..., 1996: A bill for an act to amend the Industrial Relations Act 1988, and for other purposes. North Ryde, NSW: CCH Australia, 1996.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Colvin, John H. C. 1950- and Watson Graeme R. 1955-, eds. The workplace relations handbook: A guide to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth). Sydney: Butterworths, 1998.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

Book chapters on the topic "Australia Workplace Relations Act 1996"

1

Molloy, Mark. "A Revised Legislative Framework for Australian Public Service Employment: The Successive Impacts of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) and The Public Service Act 1999 (Cth." In Public Sector Employment in the Twenty-First Century. ANU Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/psetfc.11.2007.04.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!