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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: May

The main news governing employment continues to be the Rudd Government's recent and foreshadowed changes to the Workplace Relations Act. The Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward with Fairness) legislation took effect from 28 March 2008. The main feature of the legislation is abolition of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs).

Other provisions of the Act include enabling the Workplace Authority to have regard in some cases to state and territory laws concerning long service leave as part of the no-disadvantage test applying to individual employment contracts.

Further changes to Federal IR laws will cover minimum employment standards, tightening of unfair dismissal provisions and uniform redundancy entitlements. The Government's timetable for revision of IR laws will unfold during the next 18 months, with all reforms to be operational by 1 January 2010.

Further information is at http://www.workplace.gov.au/workplace/Publications/News.

Salary scales and work level guidelines - Library employees will be aware that the salary levels recommended by ALIA are those paid by the NSW Government to librarians, library technicians and library assistants. These are listed at http://www.alia.org.au/employment/salary.scales/roles.and.pay.html. The job descriptions set out for each grade of the sector are also the worklevel guidelines recommended by ALIA.

The NSW State wage case for 2008 is currently being heard and determinations are expected in mid-June. The recommended salary scales for the library sector will be updated on the ALIA site as soon as the outcome of the NSW wage case is known.

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/
Have instant employment updates to job seekers through our RSS feed

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 wish 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 Fiona Edwards (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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