Employee Protection or Flexibility and Efficiency?

Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation Committee inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Australian Workplace Agreements Procedures) Bill 2000 (Cth), 28 August 2000, p.12. (Hereafter referred to as DEWRSB Senate Submission).

Hamberger, Jonathan, Employment Advocate, Submission to the Senate Employment Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation Commission Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Australian Workplace Agreements Procedures) Bill 2000 (Cth), 28 August 2000.

Ron McCallum comments that ‘the decision of an employer to go down the AWA route will require much forethought and will warrant close attention to the detail of this process’. McCallum Ronald , ‘Australian Workplace Agreements—An Analysis’, (1997) 10 Australian Journal of Labour Law 50–61, 51.

CPSU (PSU Group) Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation Committee inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Australian Workplace Relations Procedures) Bill 2000 (Cth), August 2000, Attachment B.

DEWRSB Senate Submission, p.51.

Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Australian Workplace Agreements Procedures) Bill 2000 (Cth), August 2000.

DEWRSB Senate Submission, p.52.

DEWRSB Senate Submission, p.52.

DEWRSB Senate Submission, p.52.

DEWRSB Senate Submission, p.52.

ACTU Senate Submission, p.5.

ACTU Senate Submission, p.5.

Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, Observation on the state of Australian Compliance with respect to the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949, International Labour Organisation, 1999. This convention was ratified by Australia in 1973.

DEWRSB Senate Submission, p.52.

For an example of the AIRC approach to the meaning of the word remuneration see Munro J. MacBean S.D.P. and Hoffman C. , J.C Bell and McArthur River Mining Pty Ltd, Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Print Q1629, 3 July 1998.