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Labour Review issue no. 128 - June 2004

union rights

To Be Or Not To Be a Member – Is That the Only Question? Freedom of Association Under the Workplace Relations Act
In interpreting the Workplace Relations Act’s freedom of association provisions, Australian courts have used a primarily individualist prism that has limited the Act’s capacity to protect unions and collective activity.

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union rights - international

Trade Promotion Authority and Core Labour Standards: implications for Australia
Despite the objections of the Coalition parties and the ALP to the inclusion of core labour standards in trade agreements, the draft text of the Australia-United States free trade agreement includes a chapter on labour rights.

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casuals

'Non-Standard’ Workers in Australia: Counts and Controversies
The growing interest in what lawyers and academics call non-standard or atypical employment arrangements is fuelled by the fact that such arrangements are accounting for a greater and greater share of the forms of employment.

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Training

Creating Markets or Decent Jobs? Group Training and the future of work
What do group training companies do? What do their operations reveal about options for work in the future?

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employment

A Needle In A Haystack. Do Increases In the Minimum Wage Cause Employment Losses?
For many years most economists thought that the answer to this was a straight forward ‘yes’. However, research during the 1990s began to overturn this conventional wisdom and showed that increases in the minimum wage did not automatically lead to employment losses.

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OHS

Men – Their Own Worst Enemies
Workplace injuries suffered by male workers could be linked to men’s attitudes to health, according to an Adelaide-based occupational health specialist.

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Work Hours

Working Time ‘Banks’ Proposed To Increase Flexibility in Finland
Finnish employers’ organisations and white-collar trade union confederations have proposed the establishment of working time ‘banks’, with the aim of increasing flexibility.

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union rights - international

Agreement Signed For ‘Coordinated Free-lance Workers’ In Outsourced Call Centres
In March 2004, Italian trade unions and employers signed a first national agreement regulating ‘coordinated freelance contracts’ in outsourced call centres.

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union rights - international

Employers Call For Public Service Strike Ban in Ireland
Codes of practice on disputes in essential public services were introduced in Ireland in late 2003.

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