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The 1991 National Wage Case: An Industrial Relations Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

D. H. Plowman*
Affiliation:
Industrial Relations Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Abstract

The recent National Wage Decision has the capacity to continue the structural efficiency thrust of recent National Wage Cases. It also has the potential to mark a major discontinuity in wage determination. The paper examines the major post-war discontinuities, the substance of the Accord Mark VI, the National Wage submissions, and the Commission’s attempts to harmonise macro-economic outcomes with enterprise bargaining.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1991

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