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100	1		_aSheldon, Peter _eauthor
245	1	0	_aEmployer and employer association matters in Australia in 2012/ _ccreated by Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite
264	1		_aLondon: _bSage, _c2013.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aThe journal of industrial relations _vVolume 55, number 3
520	3		_aThis article examines the industrial relations issues that have attracted most time and attention of employers and their associations during 2012, as well as the public, policy-directed rhetoric in which they have engaged. A first element is representative and institutional, in a year of substantial change in senior association personnel. Accordingly, we examine associations’ engagement in the Fair Work Act Review and Modern Awards Review. At the company level, we examine important instances of employers’ own industrial relations activism as well as their responses to labour shortages in the resources sector. We also briefly discuss recent dramatic job cuts in public sector employment. Throughout the year, through their public rhetoric, the heads of some of Australia’s largest companies have led an incessant, vociferous attack on the federal Labor government. Industrial relations have increasingly become a central plank in this attack. Some of this appears to have a policy basis but it is overwhelmed by a backward-looking desire for a more anti-union, anti-collective bargaining legislative regime. Calls for maximising managerial prerogative appear within a loud but misplaced assertion that productivity improvement requires regressive changes to industrial law.
650			_aEmployer associations _vEmployers' organization _xFair Work Act _zAustralia
700	1		_aThornthwaite, Louise _eco author
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0022185613480747
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