Companies were directly asked to report the number of people employed in two of the AWRS surveys. The recruitment survey identified the approximate number of workers directly employed in the company at the time of the closing of this survey (i.e. between February 24, 2014 and June 26, 2014). The “Labour Profile” survey identified the number of workers directly employed in the company during the last pay period, which ended on February 28, 2014. Reported data on the size of employment were categorized into three areas: 5-19, 20-199 and more than 200 employees. 1.9 From that date on, the Commission`s decisions and the government`s legislative measures (including the Industrial Relations Reform Act of 1993 and the Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996) facilitated this shift from the concentration of national and industrial wage setting to the setting of wages in the workplace. Overall, in the mid-1990s, the principle that industrial agreements cannot be concluded fairly, without taking into account the profitability – and ability to pay higher wages – of firms, particularly in such a diversified economy, where not all enterprises were profitable at the same time. [38] Measures are not protected when taken to support the inclusion of prohibited content in an agreement: WRA s 436. See also Heinemann Electric Pty Ltd v Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (2006) 157 IR 1. The problem may also arise in the case of a request for a protected order of action: see n 68-81 below and accompanying text. When the idea of using discretionary trusts in such agreements was raised at a public forum attended by a number of interested union leaders,[109] at least one union representative raised some concerns. The concern was that a trust would inevitably impose trust charges on the union.
Unions do not want to risk the prospect that their members – or the likely non-union beneficiaries of such trust – could sue them for breach of their obligations as agents if the union decides not to sue on behalf of a beneficiary in a particular case. [110] This is one of the peculiarities of the right of trust. Recipients themselves do not have the right to apply the terms of an agreement reached on their behalf by the agent. The sole right of the beneficiaries is against the agent to require the agent to comply with the terms of the trust. [111] Commercial trusts (z.B. Investment Trusts) control the risk of action by angry beneficiaries by including significant compensation in their trust instruments. The same protection could be used to protect union agents from dependent and indeterminate trust obligations to workers. 1.16 The first major amendments proposed after 1996 were contained in a major bill, the Labour Relations Amendment Act 1999 (more jobs, better pay). The bill, often referred to as the MOJO Act, included reducing the role of industrial premiums, reforming the certification of agreements, establishing and approving agreements, and clarifying the rights and obligations associated with trade union actions. It also wanted to limit the issues of authorized public procurement, restrict the entry rights of trade unions and review the provisions relating to freedom of association. This bill expires at the end of the 39th Parliament.
Because Mojo did not pass the Senate, this vast bill was “unpacked” in separate bills that were reintroduced in subsequent years. A number of less controversial bills have been passed. 1.52 The government`s attitude to standard bargaining for collective agreements in the private sector contrasts with its own practice of negotiating collective agreements in the public sector.
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