Surgical treatment: Liberals unveil drastic labour reform package
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Australia's Industrial Relations Minister John Howard is spearheading efforts to abolish the compulsory membership and centralized wage system enforced by the country's powerful labor union system. Howard's measures will prohibit unions from compelling employers and employees from going through union channels for contracts. Under the present system, all contractual agreements must be mediated by union representatives. The measures will also establish an Employee Advocate Office to address labor problems, but will maintain minimum legal employment provisions of current labor practices.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1992
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Role reversal: state attracts Asian criticism on workers' rights
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The state of Western Australia has drawn unaccustomed international ire over proposed legislation to impose more limits on union leaders and industrial actions. Protestors in Indonesia, S Africa, India, and the Philippines have picketed Australian embassies at the behest of their union brethren in Australia, and critics of the measure say it will create the very unrest it purports to limit. State labor-relations minister Graham Kierath introduced the bill, but it could hurt his already-ailing Liberal Party.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Workplace revolution: Australia plans far-reaching reforms in industrial relations
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Labor relations have been undergoing reform since 1986. The latest step is new legislation to change the centralized wage bargaining system to a plant-by-plant negotiating system. Eighty percent of the companies that already have workplace agreements have seen productivity rise. The Australian reforms are aimed at increasing foreign investment and positioning the country as a international trade gateway for Asia and the Pacific.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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