Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: the case of home-based clothing workers in Australia
3Over the past 20 years the labour market, workforce and work organisation of most if not all industrialised countries have been significantly refashioned by the increased use of more flexible work arrangements, variously labelled as precarious employment or contingent work. There is now a substanti...
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Canberra
2003
National Research Centre for OHS Regulation |
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| author | Quinlan, Michael Johnstone, Richard Nossar, Igor |
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| description | 3Over the past 20 years the labour market, workforce and work organisation of most if not all industrialised countries have been significantly refashioned by the increased use of more flexible work arrangements, variously labelled as precarious employment or contingent work. There is now a substantial and growing body of international evidence that many of these arrangements are associated with a significant deterioration in occupational health and safety (OHS), using a range of measures such as injury rates, disease, hazard exposures and work-related stress. Moreover, there is an emerging body of evidence that these arrangements pose particular problems for conventional regulatory regimes. Recognition of these problems has aroused the concern of policy makers - especially in Europe, North America and Australia - and a number of responses have been adopted in terms of modifying legislation, producing new guidance material and codes of practice and revised enforcement practices. This article describes one such initiative in Australia with regard to home-based clothing workers. The regulatory strategy developed in one Australian jurisdiction (and now being ‘exported’ into others) seeks to counter this process via contractual tracking mechanisms to follow the work, tie in liability and shift overarching legal responsibility to the top of the supply chain. The process also entails the integration of minimum standards relating to wages, hours and working conditions; OHS and access to workers’ compensation. ..." |
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| geographic | Australia |
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| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| is_hierarchy_id | 19295067124910132499_1416fe9523da463184dce1ae018e6990 |
| is_hierarchy_title | Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: the case of home-based clothing workers in Australia |
| language | English |
| physical | 24 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2003 |
| publisher | Canberra National Research Centre for OHS Regulation |
| spellingShingle | Quinlan, Michael Johnstone, Richard Nossar, Igor clothing worker occupational safety and health precarious employment social security work at home workers' compensation Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: the case of home-based clothing workers in Australia |
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| title | Regulating supply-chains to address the occupational health and safety problems associated with precarious employment: the case of home-based clothing workers in Australia |
| topic | clothing worker occupational safety and health precarious employment social security work at home workers' compensation |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19295067124910132499-Regulating-supply-chains-to-ad.htm |