South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The objects of
this Act are—
(a) to
promote goodwill in industry; and
(b) to
contribute to the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of South
Australia; and
(c) to
facilitate industrial efficiency and flexibility, and improve the
productiveness of South Australian industry; and
(ca) to
promote and facilitate employment; and
(d) to
encourage enterprise agreements that are relevant, flexible and appropriate;
and
(e) to
provide for awards that are relevant, flexible and expressed in non-technical
language; and
(f) to
provide a framework for making enterprise agreements, awards and
determinations affecting industrial matters that is fair and equitable to both
employers and employees;
(fa) to
establish and maintain an effective safety net of fair and enforceable
conditions for the performance of work by employees (including fair wages);
and
(fb) to
promote and facilitate security in employment; and
(g) to
encourage prevention and settlement of industrial disputes by amicable
agreement, and to provide a means of conciliation for that purpose; and
(h) to
provide a means for settling industrial disputes that cannot be resolved by
amicable agreement as expeditiously as possible and with a minimum of legal
formality and technicality; and
(i)
to ensure compliance with agreements and awards made for
the prevention or settlement of industrial disputes, and to ensure compliance
with any obligations arising under this Act; and
(j) to
provide employees with an avenue for expressing employment-related grievances
and having them considered and remedied including provisions for a right to
the review of harsh, unjust or unreasonable dismissals—
(i)
directed towards giving effect to the
Termination of Employment Convention ; and
(ii)
ensuring industrial fair play; and
(k) to
provide for absolute freedom of association and choice of industrial
representation; and
(l) to
encourage the democratic control of representative associations of employers
or employees, and the full participation by members in their affairs; and
(m) to
help prevent and eliminate unlawful discrimination in the workplace; and
(n) to
ensure equal remuneration for men and women doing work of equal or comparable
value; and
(o) to
facilitate the effective balancing of work and family responsibilities; and
(p) to
facilitate the establishment and operation of a national industrial relations
system based on co-operative federalism through—
(i)
the use of dual appointments to Commonwealth and State
industrial authorities; and
(ii)
the promotion and facilitation of other arrangements that
assist in integrating State and federal workplace relations systems and
processes.
(2) In exercising
powers and carrying out functions under this Act, the Court, the Commission
and other industrial authorities are to have regard (where relevant) to the
provisions of—
(a) the
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention 1999 (See Schedule 9); and
(b) the
Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention 1981 (See Schedule 10);
and
(c) the
Workers' Representatives Convention 1971 (See Schedule 11).