%T 'Light touch' Labour regulation by state governments in Australia: a preliminary assessment
%A John Howe
%A Phil Lewis


%I Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law
%D 2006

%K labour regulation, %K Government regulatory policy, %K Sector regulation, %K Industrial relations, %K Labour force



%U https://apo.org.au/node/1514

%X Increasing attention (particularly in Europe and the United States) has been paid to the use by states of ‘soft’ or ‘light touch’ approaches to regulating labour standards. Such regulatory approaches are yet to receive extensive consideration as forms of state labour regulation in Australian labour law scholarship. This paper presents preliminary findings from a study of light touch labour regulation by State Governments in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
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