By B Creighton & A Stewart
Federation Press, 2005
$85.00
Industrial relations has changed significantly over the past decade, and is set to change even more so over the coming years.
This fourth edition of Labour Law is a guide to the complex network of laws that regulate the Australian workplace and offers an authoritative analysis of key principles and policy issues, backed by extensive reference to other writings in the field.
In charting the continuing development of Australian labour law, authors Breen Creighton and Andrew Stewart take account of the many changes to Federal and state legislation over the past few years, as well as the more significant court decisions during this period. It also looks ahead to some of the further reforms that can be expected from the Howard Government as it moves into its fourth term in office.
It features new or expanded sections on the regulation of bargaining tactics, dispute resolution under certified agreements, monitoring and privacy at the workplace, securing employee entitlements, and protection for whistleblowers. New chapters have also been created to break up the treatment of agreement-making and of termination of employment.
Labour Law is heavy going, but a useful reference for HR and employee relations practitioners.