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ALIA employment pages

Apart from the summary material provided here, there is an extensive range of members-only pages containing detailed information and resources for ALIA members (employees and employers). The information provided covers topics such as changes to industrial relations laws, accidents at work, library workforce data and rights and obligations when facing redundancy.

Update: December

Library salaries
The 2008 NSW Crown Employees wage case has now been determined by the State Industrial Commission and includes rates of pay granted for the next three years for library workers in NSW. These rates are those recommended by ALIA for library workers throughout Australia and are now listed under 'Salary scales and worklevel guidelines' to the left of this update. The pay increases which will take effect from 1 July each year are based on an annual 4% adjustment.

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Workplace legislation: Fair Work Bill introduced
On 25 November the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, introduced the Fair Work Bill to replace the WorkChoices legislation which has operated since March 2006. The Bill proposes changes including award modernization, revised unfair dismissal laws and establishment of Fair Work Australia as a 'one-stop shop' for workplace matters.

It is intended that much of the legislation will come into force on 1 July 2009. The legislation covers corporations as recognised under Federal law, as well as workplaces in Victoria (where industrial relations powers were referred to the Commonwealth in the mid-1990s).

Of particular interest to the library sector are provisions within the legislation relating to individual workplace flexibility arrangements and strengthening of equal remuneration principles.

Details of the Fair Work Bill are at http://www.workplace.gov.au/workplace/Publications/Newsclicking on 'Australia's New Workplace Relations System'.

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Any queries regarding industrial relations matters or pay rates should be addressed to Heather Nash, Advisor, Industrial Relations & Human Resources at heather.nash@alia.org.au or (02) 6215 8228.

Looking for work?

Job and career placement advertisements are regularly and frequently updated right here in these pages. In addition, we offer advice on finding work, negotiating workplace agreements, coping with redundancy, and we also offer a review of various library-sector job or placement websites. If you are an ALIA member you can sign up to the aliaRECRUITLIS e-list for immediate notification of new job opportunities as they appear on our employment vacancies page.

Need to fill a vacancy?

List your vacant positions with ALIA and reach your target audience within the library and information services sector. By using our online employment advertising service your advertisements will be:

Published on our website: http://www.alia.org.au/employment/vacancies/
Included in our employment e-list broadcast email to: http://lists.alia.org.au/mailman/listinfo/recruitlis/
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Find out more information about our advertising rates here

Special deal for Institutional Members!

Due to the success of the Institutional member deal for employment advertising in 2007, ALIA wishes to offer this exclusive Institutional member-only benefit once again.

The special rate of $1320 ($1200 plus gst) allows Institutional members to list an unlimited number of job ads on the ALIAnet employment pages. This deal is valid for 12 months from the date of invoicing, which means you can take up this generous offer at any time and get a full year's worth of advertising.

Subscribe to the Institutional members deal now, and list your vacant positions with ALIA.

Contact employment@alia.org.au (please remove '.nospam' from address) if you wish to advertise your job vacancy through these pages (and recruitLIS, our members-only vacancies e-list).

Need advice about problems at work?

ALIA's industrial services program is available free of charge to all ALIA members. Problems at work? covers all matters connected to or arising from the employment contract including information on employment term and conditions of employment, interpretation of and help with labour law, advice on how members can improve their own situation at work and provision of direct support when difficulties are encountered. See also the members-onlymaterial of the site.

Looking to upgrade your skills?

Perhaps you might wish to consider enrolling in one of the many ALIA-recognised courses in library and information studies? Library and information sector courses to be recognised are assessed against the criteria set out in the Association's education policy statements and the course recognition procedure.

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