The new edition of this leading text provides a valuable guide to the complex network of laws that regulate our workplaces. As with previous editions, it offers an authoritative analysis of key principles and policy issues, backed by extensive reference to other writings in the field.

In charting the continuing development of Australian labour law, the new edition takes account of the many changes to Federal and State legislation over the past five years, as well as the more significant court decisions during this period. It also looks ahead to some of the further reforms that can be expected from the Howard Government as it moves into its fourth term in office.

Features include new or expanded sections on the regulation of bargaining tactics, dispute resolution under certified agreements, monitoring and privacy at the workplace, securing employee entitlements, and protection for whistleblowers. New chapters have also been created to break up the treatments of agreement-making and termination of employment, so as to make those parts of the book more accessible.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: The Role of Law in Labour Relations
CHAPTER 2: The Evolution of Australian Labour Law
CHAPTER 3: International Standards and Australian Labour Law
CHAPTER 4: The Constitutional Framework
CHAPTER 5: Institutional Structures and Arrangements
CHAPTER 6: Dispute Resolution and Award Regulation
CHAPTER 7: Agreement-Making
CHAPTER 8: Certified Agreements
CHAPTER 9: Australian Workplace Agreements
CHAPTER 10: Enforcement of Federal Awards and Agreements
CHAPTER 11: The Creation and Categorisation of Employment Relationships
CHAPTER 12: Sources of Employment Obligations
CHAPTER 13: Individual Rights and Obligations
CHAPTER 14: Unfair Employment Practices
CHAPTER 15: Termination of Employment Contracts
CHAPTER 16: Remedies for Wrongful or Unfair Termination
CHAPTER 17: Regulation of Trade Unions
CHAPTER 18: Sanctions Against Industrial Action
CHAPTER 19: Occupational Health and Safety

Supplements
Courtesy of Federation Press

Work Choices Legislation: An Overview (PDF)
The author, Andrew Stewart, assisted by Elizabeth Priest of Piper Alderman, provides a 36-page overview of the Work Choices legislation.

Work Choices - The High Court Challenge (PDF)
Expanding the Comcare System to Private Sector Employees (PDF)
The Independent Contractors Legislation (PDF)
High Court Decisions on Transmission of Business (PDF)
New Legislation in South Australia (PDF)

"This is a unique and comprehensive review of industrial relations in Australia to date. The chapters with practical application are welcome as is the consideration given to other topical issues such as securioty of employee entitlements. It is well worth updating your personal or institutional library to include the fourth edition of Labour Law."

-- Athena Koelmeyer, Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol 47 No 4 (Dec 2005)