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Participation in Labour Adjustment Assistance: The TCF Labour Adjustment Package

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Michael Webber ,
Sally Weller  and
Phillip O’Neill
Phillip O’Neill
Affiliation:
TCF Industry Study, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne
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Abstract

The 1988 sector-based industry plan for restructuring of the Australian Textiles Clothing and Footwear industries accelerated the decline of employment in the TCF sector. Many of those thrown out of work by TCF plant closures were women, older workers, and workers from non-English speaking backgrounds who would find it difficult to re-establish themselves in the labour market. The Hawke government provided a package of labour adjustment assistance designed to help the retrenched TCF workers find jobs in other industries. This paper examines the rates of participation by retrenched TCF workers in the TCF Labour Adjustment Package. Drawing on both statistical and case study evidence it explores the different take-up rates by different subgroups of retrenched TCF workers. The paper concludes by exploring the implications for labour market interventions more generally.

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Research Article
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The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 1996 , pp. 285 - 314
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1996

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