- Title
- Industry superannuation funds and SRI: a lever for better labour practices?
- Creator
- Lewer, John; McComb, Christiaan; Waring, Peter; Burgess, John
- Relation
- 23rd Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. Labour, Capital and Change: Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Volume 1: Refereed Papers (Newcastle, N.S.W. 4-6 February, 2009)
- Relation
- http://airaanzweb.weebly.com/2009-conference-main.html
- Publisher
- Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) / Newcastle Business School, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- The extent of industrial democracy in Australia is limited, with generally few formal mechanisms for employee participation and voice in the governance and management of organisations despite the normative claims of the human resource management movement. Along with low levels of union density, the Workchoices legislation clearly set out to reduce representation and participation even further by attempting to facilitate the exclusion of unions from the workplace. However, we see some scope for extending industrial democracy and implicitly trade union presence through the lever of industry superannuation funds. An initial study of the investment practices of industry superannuation funds identified few actively pursue socially responsible investment. We contend, therefore, industry funds, within their obligations imposed under the relevant superannuation law, to promote labour standards and improved industrial relations practices.
- Subject
- socially responsible investment; employment relations; industrial democracy; WorkChoices
- Identifier
- uon:9094
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920196
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780980608502
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Hits: 1324
- Visitors: 1601
- Downloads: 320
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | ATTACHMENT01 | Publisher version (open access) | 56 KB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |