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Labour Review issue no. 105 - May 2003

union rights - international
Crying Out For a Living Wage
When the head office of the ‘world’s local bank’ ignored a polite invitation from a neighbour to discuss the treatment of cleaning staff at its East London premises, the HSBC made a huge mistake.
[ Full Story ]
women and employment
The General Assault On Females In Services
Gats’ privatisation of public services will have a disproportionate effect on the lives of women
[ Full Story ]
Social issues
Poor Show: Economic Disparities and the Working Poor in Australia
Australian society has commonly been described as the “wage earners welfare state”. The inference drawn being that full employment is the normal state and that welfare services need only be focussed on those out of the workforce – the elderly and sick, the disabled, the temporarily unemployed, for example.
[ Full Story ]
Social issues
The Big Retreat From Australian Egalitarianism
Australia is in the throes of a major revaluation of its egalitarian values. Over the last couple of decades, successive governments have been steadily forging new social norms and turning their backs on many old values once considered untouchable.
[ Full Story ]
employment
Low Wage Jobs & Pathways to Better Outcomes
A review of the current state of knowledge on the role played by low wage jobs in providing access to and progression in employment for low skill workers. It addresses a number of questions:
[ Full Story ]
corporations
Plant Relocation: When Is It A Viable Threat?
An investigation, using research from the field of international business, into threats from multinational corporations to leave countries and how much substance such threats have.
[ Full Story ]
union organising
Becoming ‘Unionate’? From Staff Association to National Union:
Traces the history of the major unions that covered Australian academic staff
[ Full Story ]
Termination
Small Business and Unfair Dismissal
The Coalition has said that exempting small business from unfair dismissal provisions of the Workplace Relations Act will create 53000 new jobs in the small business sector.
[ Full Story ]
worker participation
Part-time Employment, Gender and Employee Participation in Illawarra Workplaces
The growth in non-standard employment has major implications for the effectiveness of employee participation mechanisms in the workplace, whether direct or indirect (representative).
[ Full Story ]


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