Fair Work Act 2009: Business Analysis
Introduction:
It is the intention of this essay to critically discuss and analyse the various relevant theories related to industrial relations and changes that had taken place since 2005 in industrial relations that have impacted employment relations at the workplace and how they improved the workplace conditions. This will be carried out by exhibiting the brief history industrial relations and changes in Australia. It will provide a brief overview of Fair Work Act 2009 in comparison to the Work Choices 2005 and rules and regulations relating to the employees work rights and benefits. Secondly, the essay will explain how Fair work has been able to improve the employment relations at the workplace. It will also outline the relevant HR theories …show more content…
It is an independent Australian owned petrol and convenience company which offers consumers premium quality fuels at competitive prices Australia-wide employing more than 2500 people. The workplace at United has very diverse employees from Australia as well as overseas employees working full time and students also working part time jobs. Earlier there have been several instances of complaints regarding unfair work relations, racial discrimination, pay rate lower than minimum wage rate. Fair Work Australia is a modern accessible body. Its focus is on delivering fast and effective assistance for employers and employees. There were two major unfair activities being practised at United. Employees were being paid $12 an hour which was way below the minimum wage rate of $16.87 per hour. Secondly, our store has got 2 operating consoles to attend customers and when the staff shift gets finished in the morning, the manager ask the night staff employee to work for extra 1 hour over his normal shift at the second console because the station gets very busy in the morning. The employee was not paid for for the extra time worked. The night staff reported this issue with Fair Work Australia. Fair work Australia intervened and successfully resolved the issues and directed the manager to pay fair wage rate to all employees with retrospective effect and penalty rates to employees working over their normal shift. Fair Work Act has been …show more content…
& Plowman, D., 1991, Australian industrial relations (3rd ed). Sydney. McGraw Hill Publications, p.5
Fair Work Ombudsman, (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.fairwork.gov.au/Employee-entitlements/national-employment-standards
Gardner, M. & Palmer, G. (1997) Employment Relations: Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in Australia (2nd edn), Melbourne: Macmillan, p.3
International Labour Conference. (2004). The Employment Relationship. Retrieved from http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc95/pdf/rep-v-1.pdf
Kelly, D. (2003) A shock to the system? The impact of HRM on academic IR in Australia in comparison with the USA and UK, 1980–1995. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. Vol 41(2) , pp. 149–71
Louise Floyd. (2009). Fair Work Laws: Good Faith Bargaining, Union Right of Entry and the Legal Notion of “Responsible Unionism, Carolyn Sutherland
Forsyth, A & Stewart, A. (2009). Making the “BOOT” Fit: Reforms to Agreement-Making from Work Choices to Fair Work’ in Fair Work 99, pp. 119
Rose, E.D. (2008). Employment Relations. (3rd ed).London: Pearson Education Ltd.
Stewart, G. and Horneman-Wren, S. (2006). A Watershed Year in the History of Australian Industrial Relations?. Employment Relations Record, Vol. 6(1), p.
It is the intention of this essay to critically discuss and analyse the various relevant theories related to industrial relations and changes that had taken place since 2005 in industrial relations that have impacted employment relations at the workplace and how they improved the workplace conditions. This will be carried out by exhibiting the brief history industrial relations and changes in Australia. It will provide a brief overview of Fair Work Act 2009 in comparison to the Work Choices 2005 and rules and regulations relating to the employees work rights and benefits. Secondly, the essay will explain how Fair work has been able to improve the employment relations at the workplace. It will also outline the relevant HR theories …show more content…
It is an independent Australian owned petrol and convenience company which offers consumers premium quality fuels at competitive prices Australia-wide employing more than 2500 people. The workplace at United has very diverse employees from Australia as well as overseas employees working full time and students also working part time jobs. Earlier there have been several instances of complaints regarding unfair work relations, racial discrimination, pay rate lower than minimum wage rate. Fair Work Australia is a modern accessible body. Its focus is on delivering fast and effective assistance for employers and employees. There were two major unfair activities being practised at United. Employees were being paid $12 an hour which was way below the minimum wage rate of $16.87 per hour. Secondly, our store has got 2 operating consoles to attend customers and when the staff shift gets finished in the morning, the manager ask the night staff employee to work for extra 1 hour over his normal shift at the second console because the station gets very busy in the morning. The employee was not paid for for the extra time worked. The night staff reported this issue with Fair Work Australia. Fair work Australia intervened and successfully resolved the issues and directed the manager to pay fair wage rate to all employees with retrospective effect and penalty rates to employees working over their normal shift. Fair Work Act has been …show more content…
& Plowman, D., 1991, Australian industrial relations (3rd ed). Sydney. McGraw Hill Publications, p.5
Fair Work Ombudsman, (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.fairwork.gov.au/Employee-entitlements/national-employment-standards
Gardner, M. & Palmer, G. (1997) Employment Relations: Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in Australia (2nd edn), Melbourne: Macmillan, p.3
International Labour Conference. (2004). The Employment Relationship. Retrieved from http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/ilc/ilc95/pdf/rep-v-1.pdf
Kelly, D. (2003) A shock to the system? The impact of HRM on academic IR in Australia in comparison with the USA and UK, 1980–1995. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. Vol 41(2) , pp. 149–71
Louise Floyd. (2009). Fair Work Laws: Good Faith Bargaining, Union Right of Entry and the Legal Notion of “Responsible Unionism, Carolyn Sutherland
Forsyth, A & Stewart, A. (2009). Making the “BOOT” Fit: Reforms to Agreement-Making from Work Choices to Fair Work’ in Fair Work 99, pp. 119
Rose, E.D. (2008). Employment Relations. (3rd ed).London: Pearson Education Ltd.
Stewart, G. and Horneman-Wren, S. (2006). A Watershed Year in the History of Australian Industrial Relations?. Employment Relations Record, Vol. 6(1), p.