The Coalition’s Plan to Regulate Industrial Relations
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- abstracts
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Economic and Labour Relations Review
- Vol. 4 (1), 1-26
- https://doi.org/10.1177/103530469300400101
Abstract
In October 1992 the federal coalition released Jobsback, a statement of its industrial relations policies. The article situates Jobsback in the context of the evolution of the coalition’s industrial relations policies since the Fraser years, outlines its major features, and provides a critique. Jobsback erects a new regulatory schema under a banner of deregulation. Three key elements are contained in Jobsback. They are tribunal avoidance and the use of the common law, legislatively imposed employment rules to ‘aid’ the transition from an award to a non-award system, and enterprise confinement. The article draws attention to the coalition’s views concerning industrial conflict, constitutional issues, transitional problems associated with establishing legislatively imposed workplace rules, minima in workplace agreements, the Office of the Employee Advocate, equality before the law and good faith bargaining.Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- The APPM Dispute: The Dinosaur and Turtles vs the ACTUThe Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1992
- An Uneven Playing Field: The Contract of Employment and Labour Market RegulationThe Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1992
- The Coalition and Voluntary Industrial Agreements: Some Constitutional QuestionsThe Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1992
- Industrial Relations and the Coalition’s Fightback Package: An AssessmentThe Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1992
- A Decade of Striking FiguresThe Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1991
- The Liberal-National Parties’ Industrial Relations Policy: Deregulation by Providing an Enterprise FocusThe Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1990
- Labor Flexibility and Employment Law: The New OrderThe Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1990
- The National Economic Summit: Authority, Persuasion and ExchangeEconomic Record, 1983
- Industrial Relations Under a Conservative Government: The Coalition's Labour Law Programme 1975 to 1978Journal of Industrial Relations, 1979
- A New Province for Law and Order. IIHarvard Law Review, 1919