This paper examines the impact of English and Australian unfair dismissal legislation on the common law rules which govern the termination of the employment contract. To explore this issue, the paper first outlines some general approaches to the interaction between statute law and the common...

This is a background paper for a project that maps the evolution of enterprise agreements in Australia through the lens of complexity/simplicity. Drawing on Peter Schuck's four features of complexity - technicality, density, differentiation and uncertainty - the project develops a...

Since the early debates about the introduction of enterprise bargaining in the late 1980s, politicians and other policymakers have consistently argued that the bargaining process should produce ‘simple' agreements. While a considerable body of empirical research has investigated the outcomes...