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…

Formal faculty promotion procedures are examined in the context of costs, declining recruitment, declining staff mobility, federal restrictions and legislation, increasingly uneven distribution of faculty rank and age, and the tenure system. (MSE)