The potential impact of the Fair Work Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 on collective bargaining in Australia: Reviewing the new multi-employer …

A Forsyth, S McCrystal - Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
2022 was a year of major change in the legal framework for industrial relations in Australia.
Newly elected in May 2022, the Albanese ALP Government immediately commenced an …

Why doesn't anyone talk about non-union collective agreements?

M Bray, S McCrystal, L Spiess - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Non-union collective agreements have become a common and widely accepted
phenomenon in Australian industrial relations since the 1990s. This article asks why they …

Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2020

M Bray, J Macneil, L Spiess - Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The sudden and dramatic lockdowns in Australia resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic
brought great uncertainty and much change during 2020. This review concentrates on the …

Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2018

M Bray, J Macneil, L Spiess - Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
There is a storm brewing over the roles of unions and collective bargaining in Australian
employment relations. Unions, frustrated with what they see as practical and legislative …

Avoiding collective bargaining under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth): making collective agreements without unions and the impact of recent reforms

S McCrystal - Labour and Industry, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Non-union collective agreements are central to the architecture of the Fair Work Act 2009
(Cth)(FW Act). This legislative architecture has facilitated the practice of employers creating …

Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2019

J Macneil, M Bray, L Spiess - Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Early in 2019, in anticipation of a change in Federal government, the fate of unions and
collective bargaining in Australia appeared likely to take a new direction. However, the re …