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- Title
- The Fair Work Act : as good as it gets?
- Related
- The Economic and labour relations review, Vol. 21, Issue 1 (2010), p.1-12
- Publisher
- University of New South Wales
- Date
- 2010
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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140200 Applied Economics
- Author/Creator
- Barnes, Alison
- Author/Creator
- Lafferty, George
- Description
- The Your Rights at Work Campaign in the lead-up to the 2007 Australian federal election successfully mobilised a groundswell of community opposition to the radically anti-union Work Choices employment relations legislation of 2005. There were hopes that its successor, the 2009 Fair Work Act, would usher in a new regime of good-faith workplace relations, support for collective bargaining and vulnerable workers' access to enforceable labour rights. Major gaps are the failure to address workplace power imbalance, especially in small workplaces, and lack of support for employee participation and voice mechanisms. A case is made for the inclusion of such mechanisms in legislative National Employment Standards. The article concludes by arguing that it is a mistake for unions to expect too much from legislation, rather than investing in the pursuit of the sort of community alliances which, after all, have made a restoration of Work Choices untenable.
- Description
- 12 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 140200 Applied Economics
- Subject Keyword
- Australian industrial relations
- Subject Keyword
- collective bargaining
- Subject Keyword
- discrimination
- Subject Keyword
- employee voice
- Subject Keyword
- Fair Work Act
- Subject Keyword
- labour-management relations
- Subject Keyword
- labour law
- Subject Keyword
- labour rights
- Subject Keyword
- low-paid workers
- Subject Keyword
- union-community campaigns
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Business
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/114604
- Identifier
- ISSN:1035-3046
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2009010687
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright the Publisher. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
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