Net Notes: Workplace relations and pay equity

As there was substantial interest in the visit of ALIA's industrial relations guru, Phil Teece, to Perth in September, this month's net notes focuses on sites covering the NSW pay equity case, equal pay issues, and more general employment issues.

NSW pay equity case
28 March 2002
Pay Equity Test Case gives library workers sweeping win.
http://www.alia.org.au/media.releases/2002.03.28a.html

3 April 2002
Update to Pay Equity Test Case.
http://www.eeo.nsw.gov.au/women/payequit.htm
Provides brief information on the case study and links to the Dept of Industrial Relations website and other sources.

Pay Equity Inquiry: Summary of findings and recommendations.
http://www.dir.nsw.gov.au/action/policy/equity/inquiry/summary.html

General industrial relations/employment issues
Australian Workplace
http://www.workplace.gov.au/
Use to search for information on employment, workplace relations, and wages.

WageNet
http://www.wagenet.gov.au/
WageNet provides access to wages and conditions of employment information.

Commonwealth
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
http://www.dewr.gov.au/

Australian Industrial Relations Commission
http://www.airc.gov.au/

Osiris
http://www.osiris.gov.au/
This is a database that contains the "full text of Australian Federal Awards, Agreements, Decisions, Variations and Decision Summaries." OSIRIS is hosted and maintained by DEWR (the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations).

Western Australia
Department of Consumer and Employment Protection
http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/

WA Industrial Relations Commission
http://www.wairc.wa.gov.au/index.htm

Equal Pay
Australia
Equal Pay Watch Australia
http://www.users.bigpond.com/rj_gj/index.html

The Equal Pay Handbook
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/sex_discrimination/workplace/equal_pay.html
This is a document which explains the principle of equal remuneration and can be downloaded as a .pdf or Word document.

The Struggle for Equal Pay.
http://www.vthc.org.au/women_equal_pay/

A History of Pay Equity.
http://www.dir.nsw.gov.au/action/policy/equity/history.html

Western Australia
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity
http://www.oeeo.wa.gov.au/

Equal Pay in WA. Alison C. Preston. Curtin University of Technology Women's Economic Policy Analysis Unit (WEPAU) Discussion Paper Series 00/6 September 2000
http://www.cbs.curtin.edu.au/Workingpapers/WEPAU/WEPAUDP00-6.pdf

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