Retrospect and Prospects for Collective Regulation in the Australian Public Service

O'Brien, John; O'Donnell, Michael

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Retrospect and Prospects for Collective Regulation in the Australian Public Service

Date

2008

Authors

O'Brien, John

O'Donnell, Michael

Publisher

Industrial Relations Society

Abstract

The article examines changes in the collective regulation of employment relations in the Australian Public Service over the last three decades. While federal Labor Governments in the 1990s briefly experimented with agency bargaining before returning to a