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Oliver, Damian; Walpole, Kurt – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) are intended to promote stronger linkages between education institutions and the labour market. This paper examines how industrial relations institutions mediate the relationship between formal qualifications, job classifications and pay outcomes in Australian manufacturing. In Australia a tribunal sets…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing Industry, Qualifications, Employment
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Lyons, Michael; Smith, Meg – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
In March 2006 the Industrial Relations Commissions of New South Wales and Queensland utilised their equal-remuneration wage-fixing principles to address the gender undervaluation of childcare work. In doing so the tribunals explicitly rejected employer arguments used in the past to limit increases in award rates of pay for childcare workers. While…
Descriptors: Minimum Wage, Compensation (Remuneration), Labor Relations, Foreign Countries
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McMorrow, J. F. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1982
Based on interviews and participant-observation, a matrix of nine categories is proposed that classifies teachers in unions according to the intensity of their identification with the union ("us") and the union leadership's opponents ("them"). A complex image of teacher activism emerges, providing material for further research.…
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Labor Relations