- Title
- The distinctiveness of modern awards
- Creator
- Bray, Mark
- Relation
- Work and employment relations : An era of change : Essays in honour of Russell Lansbury p. 17-33
- Publisher
- The Federation Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- An award can be defined as 'a legally enforceable determination (or the document) containing the terms and conditions of employment in a firm or industry' (Sutcliffe and Callus, 1994: 17). Since the turn of the 20th century, awards have played a central role in the regulation of labour in Australia, but their form and function have changed many times. The latest incarnation of awards, which came into operation on 1 January 2010 as part of the larger Fair Work regime introduced by the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, are called 'modern awards'. This chapter seeks to analyse modern awards as a form of regulation in employment relations and to compare them with their historical antecedents. The conceptual device that will be used to achieve these goals is a typology of regulation derived from the now extensive literature on 'bargaining structures'. This literature and the dimensions of regulation essential to this typology are briefly reviewed in section 3 of the chapter. Section 4 then uses these dimensions to describe modern awards and compare them with earlier forms of awards.1 The fifth and final section of the chapter draws together the threads of the argument and speculates about fruitful directions for future research. Given the preference of the chapter for analysis rather than narrative, however, it is useful to first provide a brief chronology tracing the development of modern awards.
- Subject
- awards; employment; labour; bargaining
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036603
- Identifier
- uon:13323
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781862878501
- Language
- eng
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