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The Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and the Prospects for Enterprise Bargaining

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Ron Callus*
Affiliation:
Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Teaching (ACIRRT), University of Sydney

Abstract

This paper examines some of the findings from the recently released report on the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, the largest industrial relations survey undertaken in Australia. The data, which is available from the Social Science Data Archive not only provide a picture of workplace industrial relations which are at odds with many popular perceptions of Australian industrial relations, but also provide information that can inform current policy debates. The evidence is examined to assess the preparedness of workplaces for decentralised bargaining arrangements.

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

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Footnotes

*

The Author was the Project Director for the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations, Canberra. My sincere thanks to Mark Cully and John Buchanan.

References

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Callus, R., Morehead, A., Cully, M., Buchanan, J.(1991) Industrial Relations at Work, AGPS, Canberra.Google Scholar