tailieunhanh - Lecture Managing diversity in Australia: Chapter 8 - Glenda Strachan, Erica French, John Burgess

Chapter 8 - Trade unions and social justice. The topics discussed in this chapter are: Employee rights, and challenges for trade unions; what are employment rights? A charter of employment rights, trade unions and the Anglo-Saxon male worker norm, changing trade union policies, paid maternity leave (PML), pay equity in the public sector,. | Chapter 8 Trade unions and social justice Marjorie Jerrard and Lisa Heap Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 8- Employee rights, and challenges for trade unions Many rights at the workplace often taken for granted by employees are derived from International Labour Organisation (ILO) standards and some are not enshrined in law in Australia; instead being defended by trade unions and their members at the workplace through bargaining, perhaps supported with industrial action. The challenge for trade unions as agents of collectivism and social justice when it comes to diversity-related employment rights in an organisational context is that, from their perspective, diversity is business-driven from senior management with a focus on individuals leaving little opportunity for union input into policy-making and often excluding diversity-related matters from collective bargaining agreements. Copyright 2010 . | Chapter 8 Trade unions and social justice Marjorie Jerrard and Lisa Heap Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 8- Employee rights, and challenges for trade unions Many rights at the workplace often taken for granted by employees are derived from International Labour Organisation (ILO) standards and some are not enshrined in law in Australia; instead being defended by trade unions and their members at the workplace through bargaining, perhaps supported with industrial action. The challenge for trade unions as agents of collectivism and social justice when it comes to diversity-related employment rights in an organisational context is that, from their perspective, diversity is business-driven from senior management with a focus on individuals leaving little opportunity for union input into policy-making and often excluding diversity-related matters from collective bargaining agreements. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 8- Employee rights, and challenges for trade unions (cont.) This is further reinforced by diversity objectives being entrenched in human resource management formulated policies, moving diversity into HRM and out of collective bargaining and the industrial relations arena. This chapter offers an analysis of five campaigns that the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and its affiliates ran to protect workers’ rights and promote equity and diversity at workplaces across Australia. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 8- What are employment rights? In Australia, workers’ human rights have not been adequately recognised under labour law and their protection is dependent almost entirely on the extent to which Australian governments have enacted legislation for their protection and exercise. The flip side

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• Managing diversity in Australia
• Managing diversity
• Diversity in the workplace
• Trade unions
• Lecture Managing diversity in Australia
• Social justice
• Managing cultural diversity
• Personnel management
• Diversity within organisations
• Managing young workers
• Managing the ageing workforce
• Workforce diversity
• Australian Public Service
• Mapping equity
• Women in male dominated industries
• Complexity of disability
• Family policies
• Employing indigenous Australians
• Women in management
• Cultural fit
• Workplace culture