Recently added articles from Employment Relations Record:
Changing rural employment--a conceptual overview.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Jan 01, 2008; ... What is Rural? Rural employment is not often the focus of employment relations journals. Yet food production, which is predominantly rural, is vital to us all. The rapid rise in many basic food commodity prices in 2008 was a salutary reminder that feeding the world's growing ...
55 + and working in an established rural regional Australian labour market.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction Ageing as an area of research and policy formulation has accelerated in recent years in Australia and other Western industrialised countries on the basis that a demographic shift has, and is likely to continue for some years, to produce an economic problem. In ...
From "workforce planning" to "collective action": developments in the Australian dairy farm sector.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction Processes in farm employment relationships have been examined and farmer learning interventions analysed for their potential to support cultural change amongst farm employers (see Nettle, et al, 2005; Nettle, et al, 2006). This work highlighted the influence of ...
Dairy exporting and employment--a possible role for OAD milking.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction--The Importance of the Dairy Industry in New Zealand Today agriculture overall is New Zealand's largest export earner. In the year to 30 September 2007 dairy exports alone were 20.7% of total merchandise export value (NZ Debt Management Office, 2008). These were ...
Reinventing meatworkers: old skills but new careers for the twenty-first century?
Jan 01, 2008; ... Workforce Development in the Meat Industry: Why would you do it? Australia is currently experiencing both skills shortages and labour shortages in many industries, ranging from mining to the meat industry. The difficulty for employers in industries such as the latter is that ...
The New Zealand shearing industry--a case study.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction The shearing industry is a major employer in New Zealand agriculture. Industry sources estimate up to 7,500 plus people work in the industry. Shearing has always had a tough image but it is not always recognised as a highly skilled occupation. It requires long hours ...
The Australian workers' union and the country women's association: using union-community partnerships to take safety to farmers.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction: an Unlikely Partnership? Informing farmers, their families, and employees about research findings on rural occupational health and safety (ROHS) and assisting them to adopt appropriate safety procedures is a major challenge for organisations involved in ROHS (Shea ...
Values and virtues or qualifications and experience? An analysis of non-profit recruitment advertising in Australia.
Jul 01, 2007; ... INTRODUCTION Many contributors to non-profit related literature have argued that, compared to other sectors, non-profit organisations tend to be more values expressive and that they generally attract employees that derive an intrinsic satisfaction from working for organisations ...
Worker participation in OHS in New South Wales (Australia) and New Zealand: methods and implications.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Legislation in New Zealand and in New South Wales (Australia) provides statutory rights for worker participation (WP) in occupational health and safety (OHS) on the expectation that such participation will improve OHS in workplaces, and will therefore make a contribution to higher ...
Union strategy in the Indonesian and Malaysian postal industries.
Jul 01, 2007; ... This article explores the implementation of Gahan's (1998) model on union strategy which consists of union aims, union methods, union tactics, and level of decision-making. Empirical data are provided from a qualitative analysis in the Indonesian and Malaysian postal industries. Research ...
Identifying knowledge workers: using direct versus indirect approaches.
Jul 01, 2007; ... This paper reviews recent research efforts relating to knowledge workers. The review found that the term 'knowledge worker' is a broadly inclusive term rather than one with a specific and narrow meaning. This finding raises issues about what focus should further research on knowledge ...
Is enterprise bargaining meeting the needs of employers and employees? The case of family-friendly working conditions in the Australian retail industry.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Throughout most of the twentieth century, awards of the industrial relations tribunals were the major source of legally enforceable conditions of employment in Australia. Since the late 1980s, enterprise bargaining has been introduced in federal and state jurisdictions but has continued to ...
Pick me! Perceptual differences of graduate recruitment and selection methods.
Jan 01, 2007; ... This article reports the findings from a study which examines the adoption of recruitment and selection methods for graduates in Australia by examining the differences and similarities in the perceptions between graduate recruiters and recent graduates. The study reveals that a wide range ...
Scratching the shiny surface of new workplaces: a note on methodology.
Jan 01, 2007; ... When organisations invest in new plants there is commonly a commitment to managerially constructed workplace cultures. This makes the investigating of employee resistance in new worksites more complicated. This article explores the processes of an ethnographic research project that aimed ...
Safe workplaces: a key issue for quality of working life.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Australian organisations differ in terms of the support they provide for proactive measures to reduce hazards in the workplace. Despite overall improvements in occupational health and safety, the statistics on workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths reflect a grim reality for many workers ...
Small and medium establishments and the new federal workplace relations system.
Jan 01, 2007; ... According to the Howard government and some 'small business' organisations, the changes made to Australian industrial relations arrangements by the 2005 'Work Choices' Act will be of particular importance to small and medium sized establishments (SMEs). Specifically, the dilution of the ...
Early steps in managing the careers of careers advisers.
Jan 01, 2007 ... Managing the careers of secondary school career advisers is important because of the current interest in career guidance for secondary school students shown by both Australian State and Federal Governments and international organisations (such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation ...
Capital reintegration into supply chains and its implications for labour law.
Jul 01, 2006; ... The task of regulation, particularly the regulation of work is becoming more complex. Consequently, labour law initiatives are becoming more sophisticated. This paper uses supply chain or commodity chain analysis (2) to assist with an understanding of the causes of contingent work (3) and ...
The long distance trucking industry in New South Wales and the role of the state.
Jul 01, 2006; ... In April 2000 the Motor Accidents Authority of New South Wales established an Inquiry into safety matters in long distance road haulage under Professor Michael Quinlan which reported to the government in the latter part of that year. In December 2001 the report of the Inquiry was released ...
'Bananas in chains'? Reflections on global commodity chains and labour movement regulatory initiatives.
Jul 01, 2006; ... Since the early 1990s the concept of supply chains has been used widely in academic research on globalisation involving a variety of commodities. More recently, supply chain structures, often represented as linear hierarchical relationships, have been used to inform labour movement ...