ALIA employment pages
Apart from the summary material provided here, there is an extensive range of members-only pages containing detailed information and resources for ALIA members (employees and employers). The information provided covers topics such as changes to industrial relations laws, accidents at work, library workforce data and rights and obligations when facing redundancy.
Update: December-January
States transfer industrial relations powers
Several State Parliaments have recently considered legislation to transfer industrial relations powers to the Commonwealth, which will bring private sector workers within coverage of the Federal Fair Work Act. Queensland and South Australia have passed legislation referring industrial powers, as provided for by section 51 (xxxvii) of the Constitution, and similar legislation is currently before the New South Wales and Tasmanian Parliaments. These States will join Victoria, which transferred its industrial powers in 1996.
Once complementary legislation has been enacted by the Commonwealth Parliament, workers in the private sector in the relevant States will be covered by aspects of the Fair Work Act, such as unfair dismissal standards, redundancy provisions and rights to request flexible working arrangements, which may not have applied under State laws. From 2010 the ten national employment standards will also apply.
To now, Federal legislation covered Commonwealth employees, all workplaces in the Territories and most workplaces in Victoria. As corporations are the only business structures specifically covered by the Constitution, private sector businesses such as sole traders and partnerships have so far been excluded from Commonwealth coverage. Once the most recent transfer of powers is completed, all workplaces other than state and local government authorities, and excluding Western Australia, will be covered by the Fair Work Act. The Western Australian Government has indicated that it will not participate in the national industrial relations scheme.
For the library and information sector, the main workplaces affected by the transfers of powers will be smaller libraries, such as law libraries, where staff have been employed by partnerships and unincorporated businesses, which were covered by state industrial laws.
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Teacher librarians: salaries
The salaries section of these pages has been updated to include recent salary increases granted to teachers in the ACT and Queensland.
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Looking for work?
Job and career placement advertisements are regularly and frequently updated right here in these pages. In addition, we offer advice on finding work, negotiating workplace agreements, coping with redundancy, and we also offer a review of various library-sector job or placement websites. If you are an ALIA member you can sign up to the aliaRECRUITLIS e-list for immediate notification of new job opportunities as they appear on our employment vacancies page.
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Due to the success of the Institutional member deal for employment advertising in 2007, ALIA wishes to offer this exclusive Institutional member-only benefit once again.
The special rate of $1320 ($1200 plus gst) allows Institutional members to list an unlimited number of job ads on the ALIAnet employment pages. This deal is valid for 12 months from the date of invoicing, which means you can take up this generous offer at any time and get a full year's worth of advertising.
Subscribe to the Institutional members deal now, and list your vacant positions with ALIA.
Contact employment@alia.org.au if you wish to advertise your job vacancy through these pages (and recruitLIS, our members-only vacancies e-list).
Need advice about problems at work?
ALIA's industrial services program is available free of charge to all ALIA members. Problems at work? covers all matters connected to or arising from the employment contract including information on employment term and conditions of employment, interpretation of and help with labour law, advice on how members can improve their own situation at work and provision of direct support when difficulties are encountered. See also the members-only material of the site.
Looking to upgrade your skills?
Perhaps you might wish to consider enrolling in one of the many ALIA-recognised courses in library and information studies? Library and information sector courses to be recognised are assessed against the criteria set out in the Association's education policy statements and the course recognition procedure.
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