The Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) is an independent organisation that seeks to ensure fair and decent workplace rights for all.
AIER works in the areas of legislation, research, education and advocacy to champion the fundamental rights and responsibilities of employers and workers, and to create positive workplaces.
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Post-election Workplace Relations: What Now?
Nearly one week on from the Coalition Government’s ‘miracle’ election win the Australian labour movement is asking itself what went wrong. This time around Australia did not vote to change the rules, perhaps some hesitancy might be attributed to the lack of detail around industry level bargaining, perhaps the ALP policy suite was too broad to be fully grasped, perhaps $55 million dollars directed at polarising the electorate is depressingly effective.
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Become a member of the AIER before 30 June and receive copies of the Australian Charter of Employment Rights, The Australian Standard of Employment Rights and Employment Rights Now.
Your ongoing support of the AIER will help fund quality labour law research and importantly our New Workplace Relations Architecture Project. Our workplace relations system needs to change, help build the case for change and design a new system of labour law to support workers rights now and into the future.
Membership payments can now be made online, join us today!
Featured Project
A New Workplace Relations Architecture
Australia’s current workplace relations system and related laws are failing to provide a fair go for people who work and those seeking work. The AIER is embarking on an ambitious project to develop a new workplace relations architecture. This is a bold project to that will look to reconfigure industrial relations, human rights and health and safety laws and regulations. As a society we are facing significant economic and social challenges, including profound and rapid changes in the way work is organised and conducted. At the AIER we believe the situation cannot be rectified by tinkering around the edges with minor reform. We have released our project plan and welcome input and comment.
Vale, Bob Hawke
AIER 2006 Work Choices Debate
With the recent passing of inaugural AIER Patron, Hon. Bob Hawke, we have been looking back over his launch of the Institute and involvement in our early debates and events. Here’s our first debate moderated by Jana Wendt and featuring:
- Hon. Bob Hawke
- Hon. Joe Hockey
- Hon. Stephen Smith
- Professor Ron McCallum
- Assoc. Professor Paul Gollan
- Sharan Burrow, ACTU
- Peter Tighe, CEPU
- John Robertson, Unions NSW
- Mark Goodsell, AiG
- Stephen Smith, AiG
- Michael Harmer, AIER
- Hon. Mordy Bromberg
- Fiona Hardie, AIER
The footage begins at about 5 minutes, enjoy!
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