Brave New Workplace: How individual contracts are changing our jobsAllen & Unwin, 01/02/2006 - 272 من الصفحات Once employees knew they'd be paid properly for working nights and overtime and couldn't be dismissed on a whim. Unions made sure of this. Now employees are being asked to do their own bargaining, one on one. Employers and government claim that this will lead to higher productivity, while unions and church groups cry foul. What is really going on? The push for individual contracts for employees overturns a century of collective efforts to create basic rights and a 'fair go' in Australian workplaces. David Peetz peels away the layers of corporate and government doublespeak that surround this most heated issue to uncover what is really happening in relations between employers and employees. He explains who benefits from individual contracts and who doesn't, and how this will change the way we work. He locates individual workplace contracts in a wider debate about whether we are moving away from collective ideals towards individualistic values. From offices to shops, schools, hospitals and mines, individual contracting affects every single employee in Australia. Brave New Workplace is compelling reading for anyone who wants to understand the brave new world of work. 'This is a timely and important book. The Australian Government is promoting individual contracts as the way forward for all Australian workplaces. David Peetz's research demonstrates clearly that individual contracts are the antithesis of modern, productive employment relationships.' - Greg Combet, ACTU Secretary 'David Peetz dissects the workplace world of dog eat dog with forensic skill. This book is essential, accessible reading for those who want to understand what individualism in the workplace means for workers and for Australian society.' - Associate Professor Barbara Pocock, author of The Work/Life Collision |
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... employees and the corporations that may employ them.9 The individual employee has very little bargaining power if she or he is unhappy with the terms offered or required by the corporation. Most workers have to work to live, and the ...
... employees and the corporations that may employ them.9 The individual employee has very little bargaining power if she or he is unhappy with the terms offered or required by the corporation. Most workers have to work to live, and the ...
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... employees are covered by a collective agreement, often referred to in Australia as an 'enterprise bargaining agreement' (EBA) and in New Zealand was formerly known as a 'collective employment contract'. This sets out workers' terms and ...
... employees are covered by a collective agreement, often referred to in Australia as an 'enterprise bargaining agreement' (EBA) and in New Zealand was formerly known as a 'collective employment contract'. This sets out workers' terms and ...
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... Employee Agreements' (EEAs), which contain more safeguards for employees. One final, technical point about collective bargaining in Australia: the academic literature almost universally refers to collective bargaining as involving ...
... Employee Agreements' (EEAs), which contain more safeguards for employees. One final, technical point about collective bargaining in Australia: the academic literature almost universally refers to collective bargaining as involving ...
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... employees, including those who voted against it. These agreements might or might not be negotiated, or they may be simply proposed by the employer and voted upon by the employees. Where they are negotiated, a selected committee of ...
... employees, including those who voted against it. These agreements might or might not be negotiated, or they may be simply proposed by the employer and voted upon by the employees. Where they are negotiated, a selected committee of ...
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... employees have relatively little power in their relationship with their employer, be it an individual capitalist or, more commonly, a corporation. As an employee of a large corporation, on an individual contract, said: I don't feel ...
... employees have relatively little power in their relationship with their employer, be it an individual capitalist or, more commonly, a corporation. As an employee of a large corporation, on an individual contract, said: I don't feel ...
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2 Youre all individuals? Some myths about individualism and collectivism | 23 |
Individual contracting for the corporation | 48 |
4 What are you worth? The impacts on ordinary employees | 85 |
Corporate strategies and human rights | 116 |
Responding to the corporate push | 157 |
7 Finding the way upholding basic rights of the brave new workforce | 186 |
Notes | 213 |
Select bibliography | 250 |
Index | 260 |
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