Industrial Legislation in 1999

Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-40

  Chapman, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 84996149565     PISSN: 00221856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002218560004200103     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. A prohibition on award and agreement clauses that discriminate on the ground of age was introduced into the Industrial Relations Act 1988 by the Industrial Relations Reform Act 1993 (which took effect from 30 March 1994).
2. Australian Industrial Relations Commission (Justice Munro, Deputy President Duncan and Commissioner Raffaelli), Junior Rates Inquiry: Report of the Full Bench Inquiring Under Section 120B of the Workplace Relations Act 1996, 4 June 1999.
3. Workplace Relations Act 1996, section 88 B(4).
4. A. Chapman, ‘Industrial Legislation in 1998’ (1999) Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 41, no. 1, p. 72 at pp. 73-4.
5. Workplace Relations Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 2), SR No. 338 of 1998.
6. Two further regulations were also gazetted on 18 December: Workplace Relations Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 3), SR No. 353 of 1998 (which increased the lodgment fee from $50 to $100).
7. Workplace Relations Amendment Regulations 1998 (No. 4), SR No 354 of 1998 (rights of entry permits).
8. Many of these changes had been foreshadowed in the discussion paper issued by the Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business in May 1999:The Continuing Reform of Workplace Relations:Implementation of More Jobs, Better Pay.
9. Australian Council of Trade Unions, Introduction and Executive Summary, Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment Bill 1999, 1999.
10. P. Robinson, ‘Democrats Sink Workplace Laws’, Age, 22 October 1999.
11. P. Robinson and J. Koutsoukis, ‘Tide Turns Against Reith Reform: ACTU’, Age, 30 November 1999.
12. P. Robinson, ‘Reith Works on Democrats’, Age, 1 December 1999.
13. P. Robinson, ‘Reith Works on Democrats’.
14. Minister for Industrial Relations, Towards a Best Practice Australian Public Service, 1996.
15. Public Service and Merit Protection Commission, Accountability in a Devolved Management Framework, 1997.
16. Joint Committee of Public Accounts, An Advisory Report on the Public Service Bill 1997 and the Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Bill 1997, 1997.
17. Explanatory Memorandum: Public Service Bill 1999, p. 6.
18. David Kemp, ‘Public Service Bill Passed—A New Act for a New Century’, Press Release, 14 October 1999.
19. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, Part IIB, Division 2.
20. HREOC, ‘Media Release: Commission Welcomes Legislative Change Passed by Senate’, 21 September 1999.
21. Department of Employment, Education and Small Business, Unfinished Business: Equity for Women in Australian Workplaces, 1998.
22. House of Representatives, Hansard, 22 September 1999, p. 10–144.
23. Industrial Relations (General) Amendment (Authority to Prosecute) Regulation 1998.
24. Industrial Relations Amendment (Federal Award Employees) Act 1998.
25. Courts Legislation Further Amendment Act 1998.
26. Court Legislation Amendment Act 1999.
27. Department of Industrial Relations (NSW), Pay Equity Inquiry: Reference by the Minister for Industrial Relations Pursuant to Section 146(1) (d) of the Industrial Relations Act 1996, 1998.
28. Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 Part 2.
29. Child Protection (Prohibited Employment) Act (No. 3) 1998, sections 6 and 8.
30. Commission for Children and Young People Act (No. 2) 1998, Part 7.
31. Ombudsman Amendment (Child Protection and Community Services) Act (No. 3) 1998, Schedule 1, which inserts a new Part 3A into the Ombudsman Act 1974.
32. Surveillance Devices Act 1999, sections 6 and 7. The Act also prohibits the publication of information gained through such devices: Part 3.
33. Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Fairer, Safer, More Secure, More Productive: The Future for Victorian Workplaces, 1999.
34. Anti-Discrimination Act 1998, section 16.
35. M. Spry, ‘The Industrial Relations Act 1999 (Qld)’ (1999) 12 Australian Journal of Labour Law, 199.
36. Legislative Assembly (Queensland), Hansard, 25 May 1999, p. 1827.
37. Legislative Assembly (Queensland), Hansard, 25 May 1999, p. 1830.
38. WorkCover Queensland Amendment Act 1999, section 5.
39. Legislative Assembly (Northern Territory), Hansard, 1 June 1999, p. 1248.