| industrial relations international |
International Framework Agreement Concluded at EADS
An international framework agreement was concluded in June-July 2005 between the European Works Council and management at the European defence company EADS. It commits the company to adhering to a range of ILO Conventions and other international instruments in order to ensure a fair and decent working environment for its workforce worldwide. |
| [ Full Story ] |
| work and family |
Employers and Unions Respond to Proposed Improvements to Parents’ and Carers’ Rights at Work
A public consultation exercise on extending the statutory rights of parents and carers to paid leave and flexible working closed in the UK in May 2005. This article outlines the government’s proposals and the social partners’ responses. |
| [ Full Story ] |
| working conditions |
Quality in Work and Employment
This statistical analysis and presentation of survey data follows the quality of work and employment matrix developed by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in its paper Quality of Work and Employment in Europe: Issues and challenges . This model distinguishes four key dimensions for the promotion of quality of work and employment: |
| [ Full Story ] |
| work and family |
Working for the Family
The research reported here concerns employers who, while drawing on a rhetoric which appears to recognise their employees as having an identity other than their narrow work roles, in practice organised their workplaces in ways which strongly conflicted with an acceptable work / life balance. This seems to draw on a different, and earlier, employer tradition of responding to employees’ gendered identities. |
| [ Full Story ] |
| Decisions |
To Work or Not to Work? Is There a Duty On the Employer to Provide Work?
What are the legal consequences of an employer continuing to pay an employee without requiring the employee to perform work? Can the employee insist on the employer allotting the employee work? |
| [ Full Story ] |
| Termination |
Video Footage Did Not Support Dismissal
Video footage can be counter-productive for employers in dismissal cases. |
| [ Full Story ] |
| legislation |
A Simple Plan for Workplace Regulation?
The government claims its proposed changes to industrial laws will make for a "simpler" process of regulation., both by "streamlining" existing federal processes and by "eliminating the complex, costly and inefficient overlap" of state and federal regulation. |
| [ Full Story ] |
About Unions NSW
