This paper presents an analysis of the inter-relationship between employment promotion policies in Australia and labour law. Surveying recent trends in policy, it identifies the role that law has played in employment promotion in the past twenty years. It then examines the relationship between...

Australia's economic and industrial systems were intensively regulated through extensive labour laws more or less since the early 1900s. These systems, based on the conciliation and arbitration of industrial disputes (or similar concepts), regulated terms and conditions of employment, secured...

The Prime Minister's recent statement outlining the Coalition Government's plans for industrial relations heralds a period of profound change in Australian labour regulation. Proposed alterations to the institutional landscape for regulation of wages and other minimum standards, including a...

In the face of declining prominence and influence under industrial relations laws regulating Australian workplaces, Australian trade unions appear increasingly to be directing their attention to Corporations Law as a mechanism for pursuing union and employee “voice” within corporate business...