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ACTU Plan the Path to Democracy in the Workplace
Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) Advisory Committee member Dr Anthony Forsyth evaluates the Australian Council of Trade Union’s (ACTU) report 'A Fair Go At Work', which outlines the peak union body’s proposals for enshrining collective bargaining...
WorkChoices: Hobson’s Choice at Work
In an address at the recent Australian Labour Law Association Conference in Brisbane Rob Durbridge, the Executive Director of Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER), questions the Howard Government’s recent WorkChoices amendments and explores options for...
Reforming Australian Industrial Relations?
In his address as part of the 21st Foenander Lecture, Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) Advisory Committee member Joe Issac explores the place of the WorkChoices legislation within the framework of an economically efficient and socially fair industrial...
WorkChoices…The Low Road to Nowhere?
Australian Institute for Employment Rights (AIER) Executive Director Rob Durbridge outlines the wider implications of the federal government's radical new WorkChoices legislation. As we enter the new financial year, what is the forecast for the federal government’s...
WorkChoices Legislation Fails To Uphold Basic IR Principles
In an address to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), Sharan Burrows, presents a compelling paper on the effects of the WorkChoices...
AIER Calls for a Review to the Proposed Independent Contractors Bill Legislation
The Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) this week presented a submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Legislation Committee urging them to review the proposed Independent Contractors Bill legislation in the belief that the...
Collective Bargaining & Union Recognition Rights: Policy Issues for Australia
What is the most appropriate system to provide statutory recognition and protection of collective bargaining rights in the Australian context? This research report by the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) provides an overview of systems of collective...
Collective Bargaining & Union Recognition Rights: Policy Issues for Australia
What is the most appropriate system to provide statutory recognition and protection of collective bargaining rights in the Australian context? This research report by the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) provides an overview of systems of collective...
Collective Bargaining & Union Recognition Rights: Policy Issues for Australia
What is the most appropriate system to provide statutory recognition and protection of collective bargaining rights in the Australian context? This research report by the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) provides an overview of systems of collective...
Keith Ewing Declares Vital Role for Institutes of Employment Rights
Keith Ewing, a founder of the UK Institute of Employment Rights, believes that advocacy to improve employment rights is an ongoing necessity in both Britain and Australia. Welcoming the formation of the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) he said that...
Hawke Launches the Australian Institute of Employment Rights
Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke launched the Australian Institute of Employment Rights (AIER) to a 200-strong audience from legal, academic and industrial relations circles in Melbourne on Wednesday evening. Monash’s City Law Chambers were packed to hear...