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The Challenge of Change. LAFFER lecture – June 2013. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Challenge of Change
LAFFER lecture – June 2013
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Technology
Energy & Environment
Structural Change
Society
The Asian Century
Demography
Change
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Chart 1: Proportion of the population aged 65 and over
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Chart 2: Effect of the ageing population on the participation rate
Mar-08 Sep-08 Mar-09 Sep-09 Mar-10 Sep-10 Mar-11 Sep-11 Mar-12 Sep-12 Mar-1364.0
64.5
65.0
65.5
66.0
66.5
67.0
Counterfactual Actual LFPR
Per cent
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Chart 3: Contributions to growth in average incomes
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Foreign income flows Terms of trade Labour utilisation
Labour productivity GNI per person
Percentage points contribution, annual average Percentage points contribution, annual average
Source: Treasury calculations based on ABS Catalogue Numbers 5206.0, 6202.0 and unpublished ABS data.
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Manufacturing
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Information media and telecommunications
Other services
Electricity, gas, water and waste services
Rental, hiring and real estate services
Administrative and support services
Financial and insurance services
Arts and recreation services
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
Public administration and safety
Transport, postal and warehousing
Accommodation and food services
Mining
Education and training
Construction
Professional, scientific and technical services
Health care and social assistance
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Year to February 2013 Average annual change February 2003 to February 2013
'000s
Chart 4: Change in employment by industry – February 2003 – February 2013 (“000s)
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Chart 5: Employment growth for selected industries—Cumulative growth since February 2007
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Mining Manufacturing
Retail trade Professional, scientific and technical services
Education and training Health care and social assistance
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Chart 6: Proportions of total employment by sector
Feb-93 Feb-95 Feb-97 Feb-99 Feb-01 Feb-03 Feb-05 Feb-07 Feb-09 Feb-11 Feb-130
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Manufacturing (LHS) Services (RHS)
Per cent Per cent
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“The union and state opposition also fear a shortage of mental health beds at Monash Medical Centre is linked to at least three sexual assaults against nurses that occurred just days before the hospital was stretched to breaking point, causing management to create a virtual, pop-up ward for eight mentally ill patients.”
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Chart 7: Union membership by top five industries, as a proportion of total union membership, 1994 and 2012
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9.5
8.3
13.410.5
39.8
9.2
8.3
12.7
17.521.6
30.8
Manufacturing
Retail trade
Public adminis-tration and safety
Education and training
Health care and social assistance
Other
1994 2012
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Chart 8: Union membership by top 5 industries, as a proportion of total union membership, 1994 and 2012
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Per cent
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Chart 9: Disputation, union density and size of industry by employment, 1993–2012
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Mar-1993 to Dec-1996 Sep-2009 to Dec-2012Union density (%)
Average working days lost per year
Manufacturing
ConstructionEducation; Health and community ser-vices
Manufacturing
Construction
Education & training; Health care & social assist-ance
Mining
Mining
Source: ABS, Industrial Disputes, Australia, Dec 2012, Catalogue No. 6321.0.55.001; ABS, Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia, August 2012, Catalogue No. 6310.0.
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Chart 10: Working days lost per 1000 employees, 1988–2012
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rkin
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ays
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em
plo
yees
IR ActAverage =
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IR Act post 1993Average =
96.0
WR ActAverage = 53.7
Work Choices Average =
13.4
FW Act Average = 20.3
CAA ActAverage =
232.2
Source: Fair Work Commission calculations based on ABS, Industrial Disputes, Australia, Dec 2012, Catalogue No. 6321.0.55.001. Weighted averages are for the quarters covered by different employment relations arrangements.
Based on, and extending, Chart 4.16 at p. 75 of Towards more productive and equitable workplaces: An evaluation of the Fair Work legislation, report prepared by the Fair Work Act Review Panel, DEEWR, 2012.
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Chart 11: Industrial disputes and employees in expired/terminated agreements
Source: Chart 4.17 at p. 77 of Towards more productive and equitable workplaces: An evaluation of the Fair Work legislation, report prepared by the Fair Work Act Review Panel, DEEWR, 2012. Using ABS, Industrial disputes, Australia (Cat. No. 6321.0.55.001), Spreadsheet Table 3B; Workplace Agreements Database, and ABS, Labour force, Australia (Cat No. 6202.0), Spreadsheet 1..
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Nature of our work
• wage fixation• individualisation vs. collective disputes• engagement
The consequences of change
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Chart 12: Growth in C14 and C10 relative to AWOTE, AWE and WPI, cumulative percentage change
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WPI AWOTE AWE C14 C10
Index (Dec-02 = 100)
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Chart 13: Real weekly total earnings (full-time adult non-managerial employees) by percentile—2002–2012
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Chart 14: Matters dealt with by the national industrial relations institution, 1998–99 to 2011–12
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Dimensions of Change
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SHIFT IN THE NATURE OF THE COMMISSION’S WORK
Legislative Factors
unfair dismissals
general protections
non union collective agreements
right to request
individual flexibility arrangements
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Promoting fairness and improving access
Efficiency and innovation
Accountability
Productivity and Engagement
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RECENT INITIATIVES
PRO BONO LEGAL SCHEME
UNFAIR DISMISSAL BENCHBOOK
APPEALS PRACTICE NOTE
FAIR HEARING PRACTICE NOTE
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ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
•FACT SHEETS•VIRTUAL TOUR•INFORMATION SESSIONS•FEEDBACK
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
RESEARCH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
WORKPLACE ENGAGEMENT
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✔ Capacity to search the content of collective agreements launched December 2012. The new tool responds to the Fair Work Act Review Panel’s suggestion that best practice productivity enhancing provisions in agreements be more readily identifiable and made more widely known to employers and unions.
✔ In terms of workplace engagements, a Commission-sponsored conference was held in October 2012 with key industry stakeholders including ACCI, the ACTU and the AiG.
✔ The Fair Work Commission signed an MOU with the Fair Work Ombudsman and Fair Work Building and Construction in October 2012, formalising their commitment to work together on the issue of productivity in Australian workplaces.
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