The economic and social costs associated with unproductive time spent in labour market transitions between jobs and between unemployment and employment have been the subject of recent policy debate. There is now broad support for policies that provide both positive and negative incentives to...

In seeking to increase the flexibility of their use of employee time, employers can pursue strategies based on the employment of casual and part-time workers (numerical flexibility) or strategies based on ad hoc variation of the working hours of permanent employees (working time flexibility)....

This paper presents recent Australian evidence on the extent to which women are entering “hybrid” computing jobs combining technical and communication or “people management” skills, and the way these skill combinations are valued at organisational level. We draw on a survey of detailed...

One of the concerns for the pursuit of gender pay equity in Australia, following the implementation of WorkChoices in March 2006 and the commitment by both major political parties to a 'unified' national system of private-sector industrial relations, is loss of the momentum recently achieved...

The story of pay equity in Australia is usually told in terms of the influence of wage setting institutions, and illustrated by the dramatic narrowing of the gender pay gap that occurred over the 1970s. The fate of pay equity since the 1980s has received much less attention, and indeed there has...

The university sector has been a leader in the development of equity and diversity policies in Australia, with most organisations providing strong protections against gender (and other forms of) discrimination as well as programs to support women's career advancement and comparatively generous...

From the establishment of a 'family wage' for men in the early 1900s through to ongoing test cases over parental leave in the early 2000s, the arbitration system has played a central role in shaping the policy framework affecting families and the intersection of market and domestic labour. The...

Books reviewed: David Holman, Toby D. Wall, Chris W. Clegg, Paul Sparrow and Ann Howard. The New Workplace: A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices. Andy Danford, Mike Richardson and Martin Upchurch. New Unions, New Workplaces: A Study of Union Resilience in the Restructured...