Workplace
Relations Act 1996
http://law.ausinfo.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/70/top.htm
This site allows students and teachers to download and search the Workplace Relations Act 1996.
Office
of the Employment Advocate
http://www.oea.gov.au
The Office of the Employment Advocate is an integral part of the Workplace Relations Act. The Advocates's website includes basic information regarding Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA's), development, lodging procedures and the role of the Employment Advocate.
Department
of Workplace Relations and Small Business
http://www.dwrsb.gov.au
Includes fact sheets and user guides, covering Termination of Employment, "Agreement Making", and "Industrial Action and compliance"; the Workplace Relations Act, the Workplace Relations Regulations and Explanatory Memorandum.
http://www.wagenet.gov.au/factshts.html
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Business
Council of Australia
http://www.bca.com.au/default.asp?pnewsid=1186&psiteid=BCA&menu=true
This paper details the Business Council of Australia's view on Labour Market Reform. In particular the paper examines building cooperative and productive workplaces and the priorities for workplace reform.
http://www.wagenet.gov.au/glossary/html
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Australian
Productivity Commission
www.pc.gov.au
The Productivity Commission, an independent Commonwealth agency, is the Government's principal review and advisory body on microeconomic policy and regulation. This site includes information on research and media releases relating to Australia's economic productivity. http://www.pc.gov.au/research/program/topic4.html This site includes information from the Australian Productivity Commission regarding labour market inequality in Australia: trends, causes and consequences, links between industrial relations practices and labour productivity growth, unemployment and re-employment of displaced workers, the growth and decline of employment at the firm level, changing earnings distribution in Australia: the role of technical change, unemployment: economic analysis and policy modelling and understanding the growth in 'non-traditional' employment.
http://www.wagenet.gov.au/glossary/html
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Australian
Industrial Relations Commission
http://www.airc.gov.au
This site is an excellent site to examine recent decisions of the AIRC, awards and major decisions.
University
of Wollongong HSC Economics Page
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~gep/activity4.htm
Try the activity on the characteristics of the labour force in Australia, which gives students an orientation to the Australian Labour Market. This site also includes a glossary of relevant Labour market terms.
http://www.dir.nsw.gov.au/pubs/equity/index.htm
http://www.dir.nsw.gov.au/misc/links.htm
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Department
of Workplace Relations and Small Business
http://www.dwrsb.gov.au
Includes fact sheets and user guides, covering Termination of Employment, "Agreement Making", and "Industrial Action and compliance"; the Workplace Relations Act, the Workplace Relations Regulations and Explanatory Memorandum.
http://www.labor.net.au/workers/magazine/latest
http://www.workcover.nsw.gov.au
http://www.cf.ac.uk/ccin/union
http://www.dir.nsw.gov.au/misc/links.htm
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Osiris
http://indrel.ausinfo.gov.au
This site includes the full text of federal awards, variations, certified agreements and decisions of the AIRC.
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/cc.nsf/pages/index
http://www.dir.nsw.gov.au/pubs/brochure/dismissal.htm
http://members.xoom.com/takver/wharfie/who.htm
http://members.xoom.com/takver/wharfie/feb98.htm
http://members.xoom.com/takver/wharfie/wotw.htm
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Sites Used to Prepare the Module Notes
http://www.dea.gov.au/fs_faw.htm
http://www.dir.nsw.gov.au/wagerate/wageind.htm
http://www.labour.net.au/lcnsw
http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/labour
http://psa.labor.net.au/unions/psa