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Industrial Relations Links

Latest publications:

• Workplace relations reforms: a chronology of business, community and Government ,
• Workplace Relations Legislation: Bills Passed, Rejected or Lapsed, 38th–40th Parliaments (1996–2004),
• Federal workplace relations plans and the States in 2005 (Senators and Members only)
• Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005, Internet Resource Guide, Law and Bills Digest Section

Governments & the Law -- Labour & Employer Organisations -- International Links -- Other Sources of Information

Workchoices - a new workplace relations system

Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005

• Explanatory Memoradum
• Second Reading

Provisions of the Workplace Relations Amendment
(Work Choices) Bill 2005 - Employment, Workplace Relations
and Education Legislation Committee

Governments and the Law

• Australian Industrial Relations Commission
• Australian Workplace
• Breaking the Gridlock contains the discussion papers released by the Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business in October 2000
• Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)
• Office of the Employment Advocate
• Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry - Table of the Government's Response to the 212 Recommendation of the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry
• Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry - Final report
• Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry - A Howard Government Attack On The Construction Industry (ACTU)
• Wagenet

The States

• NSW. Office of Industrial Relations
• Victoria. Business Victoria – Industrial Relations
• Qld. Department of Employment and Training and Department of Industrial Relations
• WA. Department of Consumer and Employment Protection - Labour Relations
• SA. SafeWork SA
• Tas. Justice Tasmania - Tasmanian Industrial Commission

Law Links

• AustLII Databases (for Federal and State case law and legislation,)
• The Parliamentary Library Law and Bills Digest Group's Industrial Law links
• Workplace Relations Act

Labour and Employer Organisations

• ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions )
• ACTU International Affiliates (from the ACTU National Directory)
• ACTU Union links
• Australian Business Limited
• Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)
• Australian Industry Group
• Business Council of Australia (BCA)
• National Farmers' Federation (NFF)
• Organisations registered under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Employers and Unions)
• Trades and Labour Councils (from the ACTU National Directory)

International Links

• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
• Cyber Picket Line
• European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
• European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIROnline)
• European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
• International Chamber of Commerce
• International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
• International Confederation of Free Trade Unions-Asian and Pacific Regional Organisation (ICFTU-APRO)
• International Institute for Labour Studies
• International Labour Organisation (ILO)
• International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA)
• International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour: IPEC
• NZ. New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
• UK. Employment Relations, Department of Trade and Industry
• UK. Trades Union Congress (TUC)
• UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe)
• USA. Department of Labor
  • Foreign Labor Trends - Australia
• USA. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Other Sources of Information

• Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT)
• National Institute of Labour Studies (Flinders University)
• National Key Centre in Industrial Relations (Monash University, Faculty of Business and Economics)
• School of Industrial Relations (Griffith University)
• Workers Online
• WorkplaceInfo

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