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The Liberal-National Parties’ Industrial Relations Policy: Deregulation by Providing an Enterprise Focus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

John Howard
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Abstract

The central objective of the Opposition’s industrial relations policy is to provide an enterprise focus to the current industrial relations system. Deregulation will be achieved by introducing voluntary unionism and creating an alternative industrial relations stream of enterprise-based voluntary agreements alongside the existing system. The new agreements will have the status of awards but will not be within the purview of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC). Over time, the alternative, deregulated system would become the predominant one as employers recognised its benefits and opted out of the centralised system. Greater flexibility would lead to greater productivity without the problem of wage break-outs.

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The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , December 1990 , pp. 34 - 47
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1990

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