Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the legal framework with in
which employment conditions are established in Australia. Comparative studies
in the field of employment relations can promote understanding of the factors and
processes that determine such phenomena and can generate a better
understanding of our own country's institutions and practices. The need for such
understanding is becoming more urgent in the context of globalisation and the
quest for some understanding of what might be deemed as socially responsible
employment conditions. However, comparative international employment
relation's study also presents particular challenges, as there are international
differences in terminology as well as problems in distinguishing between the law
and actual practice. This paper aims at assisting the development of comparative
employment relations study by providing a detailed but simplified examination of
Australian labour law which might form the bases for future comparative study.
