Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Mohammed Al Bhadily Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 256 ISBN: 9783844327670
Описание
The aim of this study is to critically analyse the effectiveness and adequacy of the Australian General Employee Entitlements Redundancy Scheme (GEERS) in providing protection for employee entitlements in the event of corporate insolvency. It surveys alternative models for protection of employee entitlements proposed and considered by the Howard Conservative Coalition Government (1996-2007) as well as alternative proposals from the then Australian Labor Party opposition. It includes a discussion of the Australian trade union advocated scheme, known as the National Entitlement Security Trust (NEST). GEERS is also evaluated against international models from developed and developing economies. This study concludes that the current regime of employee entitlement safeguards against corporate insolvency in Australia lacks a holistic approach and revision of the scheme is justified having regard to international benchmarks and conventions and impending industrial law...
