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The new edition of this leading text provides a valuable guide to the complex network of laws that regulate our workplaces. As with previous editions, it offers an authoritative analysis of key principles and policy issues, backed by extensive reference to other writings in the field. Features include new or expanded sections on the regulation of bargaining tactics, dispute resolution under certified agreements, monitoring and privacy at the workplace, securing employee entitlements, and protection for whistleblowers. New chapters have also been created to break up the treatments of agreement-making and termination of employment, so as to make those parts of the book more accessible. The text looks ahead to some of the further reforms that can be expected from the Howard Government as it moves into its fourth term in office.