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Industrial Relations: A Current Review.

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Industrial Relations: A Current Review, edited by Richard HALL, London: Sage Publications, 2006, 144 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1-412929-50-9.

This book mostly focuses on contemporary Australian employment relations and the Howard Government's current direction. Seven of its nine chapters cover topics such as: the Workchoices agenda; emerging labour market trends, wage outcomes, and tribunal decisions; the federal legislative program aside from the Workplace Relations Amendment Act (2005); and, relevant union and employer matters. The last couple of chapters address recent employment-related issues in the United Kingdom and two Asian transition economies. The book is structured as an edited series of essays contributed by different authors.

The publication's theme is that Workchoices is a retrograde step; being, at least, an unfair assault on the bargaining capacity and other entitlements of employees but also unlikely to be able to deliver its advertised benefits. The authors attack underpinnings of the new system as being based on: untested theory; an excessively individualist...

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