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The Workplace Relations Act 1996 is an Australia
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n law passed by the Howard Government
Howard Government

The Howard Government refers to the federal Executive Government of Australia for the 11 years that John Howard was Prime Minister of Australia....
 after coming into power in 1996. It replaced the previous Labor
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 Government's Industrial Relations Act 1988. It started operation on 1 January, 1997 and provided for the continuation of the federal award system which provides a minimum set of terms and conditions for employment. The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) continues to determine federal awards but has been restricted by the Act to just 20 "allowable award matters", namely:






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The Workplace Relations Act 1996 is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n law passed by the Howard Government
Howard Government

The Howard Government refers to the federal Executive Government of Australia for the 11 years that John Howard was Prime Minister of Australia....
 after coming into power in 1996. It replaced the previous Labor
Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
 Government's Industrial Relations Act 1988. It started operation on 1 January, 1997 and provided for the continuation of the federal award system which provides a minimum set of terms and conditions for employment. The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) continues to determine federal awards but has been restricted by the Act to just 20 "allowable award matters", namely:
  • classification of employees
  • hours of work
  • rates of pay
  • piece rates, tallies and bonuses
  • various forms of leave (eg. annual and long service leave)
  • public holidays
  • allowances
  • penalty rates
  • redundancy pay
  • notice of termination
  • dispute settling procedures
  • stand down provisions
  • jury service
  • pay and conditions


Some of its provisions upon first being enacted included:
  • the introduction of Australian Workplace Agreement
    Australian Workplace Agreement

    An Australian Workplace Agreement was an individual written agreement on terms and conditions of employment between an employer and employee in Australia, under the Workplace Relations Act 1996....
    s, a form of individual contract which can override collective agreements;
  • expansion of the use of enterprise bargaining agreement
    Enterprise bargaining agreement

    An Enterprise Bargaining Agreement consists of a collective industrial relations agreement between either:# an employer and a trade union acting on behalf of employees, or:...
    s;
  • a reduction of the allowable matters in Federal Awards to 20;
  • restrictions on union activity; and
  • outlawing closed shop
    Closed shop

    In North America a closed shop is a business or industry factory in which trade union membership is a precondition to employment. It is opposed to the open shop, which does not consider union membership in hiring decisions and does not give union members preference in hiring....
    s.


The Workplace Relations Regulations 2006 repeal and replace the Workplace Relations Regulations 1996 to accommodate the WorkChoices
WorkChoices

The Workplace Relations Act 1996, as amended by the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 2005, or WorkChoices, which came into effect in March 2006, was the most comprehensive change to industrial relations in Australia in over a century....
 amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 introduced on March 27, 2006.

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