Employer Association
Industrial relations in Australia is undergoing considerable change. The counterpart organisations to unions for employees are, of course, s. This paper argue that s exist to provide to employers, services to enable them to cope with the demands of unions and the complexities of employing staff in terms of wages to be paid and other legal obligations under awards, health and safety legislation, workers' compensation provisions and other industrial legislation. (Marker's notes)
s consist of groups of employers who represent and participate on behalf of their members. They combine their activities to protect their mutual interest and objectives. These associations can either be reactive or ...
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as 's' (Deery and Plowman, op cit, p.191). Thus, s are a particular form of employer organisation. In essence, employer organisations developed to provide services which individual employers could not provide nearly as easily. More specifically, employer organisations were developed to fulfil a number of aims. The aim of employer groups are varied. The first is to regulate trade and competition by mutual agreement. The second is to seek statutory protection in trade, particularly concerning imports. The third is to provide services in the fields of industrial relations and personnel administration. The fourth is to lobby within the political arena in opposition to social legislation (concerning, for example, minimum pay laws, reduced hours of work, and, in Australia, the establishment of conciliation and arbitration tribunals) (Windmuller, 1984:1).
The maze of s in Australia is quite complex and attempts at classifying different types of associations are necessarily approximate. ...
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industry associations which have chosen to affiliate with the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry include the Australian Bankers' Association, the Meat and Allied Trades Federation of Australia, the Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia and the Printing and Allied Trades Employers' Federation of Australia (Deery and Plowman, op cit, p.191). (Marker's notes)
The bulk of employer associations are likely to be semi-autonomous and confined to an individual industry or sector of an industry. Their financial and staffing resources will be such as to enable the provision of some specialist services to their members but, in all likelihood, they will affiliate with a major ...
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