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Is enterprise bargaining meeting the needs of employers and employees? The case of family-friendly working conditions in the Australian retail industry.

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 operate alongside the more traditional, although altered, award system. A common argument advanced in support of the move to enterprise bargaining, is that the traditional centralised system lacked the flexibility needed to met the needs of those at the workplace and that enterprise bargaining would facilitate the development of employment conditions more attuned to the needs of both ...

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