Australian Bulletin of Labour articles from June 2005

Australian Bulletin of Labour archives from June 2005

Coming soon to a workplace near you--the new industrial relations revolution.(CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE)
June 1, 2005... Abstract This article explains and examines the content and likely effects of the industrial relations legislative package announced by the Prime Minister in May 2005. After placing the package in historical context, including the low take...

A New Province for Law and Order: assessing one hundred years of industrial arbitration in Australia.(CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE)
June 1, 2005... 1. Introduction The use of conciliation and arbitration to resolve industrial disputes in Australia stands as one of the great social experiments of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries anywhere in the world. While the experiment...

A potential dividend from workforce ageing in Australia.(CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE)
June 1, 2005... Abstract This study explores by simulation analysis the extent of a potential dividend from workforce ageing in Australia. The analysis suggests that the optimum workforce is older than the actual workforce today. Hence, workforce ageing...

Do longer working hours lead to more workplace injuries? Evidence from Australian industry-level panel data.(CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE)
June 1, 2005... Abstract Using Australian industry-level data on weekly hours of work and frequency of new workers' compensation claims for work-related accidents over the 1990s, we examine the relationship between working time and work-related injuries...

The role and usage of conciliation and mediation in dispute resolution in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.(CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE)
June 1, 2005... Abstract The Workplace Relations Act 1996 severely curtailed the traditionally strong arbitral powers of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission; rather, a key thrust of the legislation was the make unions and employers primarily...