Commerce Year 10

1. EMPLOYMENT ISSUES
Part 1
Year 10 Commerce, Mr Shipp 2015

2. Types of Employment
• Employer - A person or organisation who employs
workers under a contract of employment.
Employers exercise some control over their workers
and are responsible for the payment of wages or
salaries and for providing a safe working
environment.
• Employee - A person working under the control or
direction of another, according to a contract of
employment and in return for a wage or salary.

3. Activity Time
As we research each employment option, please
complete the following table
Type of
Employment
Description Advantages Disadvantages

9. Activity Time
Outline which
employment option
you would prefer
when you leave school.
Justify your answer

10. Changing Work Patterns
• Due to global forces the nature
of work patterns are changing
for Australian workers
• rapid growth of outsourcing,
changes to work hours, the
change in jobs throughout a
career and a reduction of full
time workers are some of the
changes

11. Changing Work Patterns in 2014 Australia

14. • Demographic Changes - increase in women working,
retirement age will change from 65 to 67
• Casualisation - increase to the amount of these
workers
• Technological change - people working from home,
technology replacing humans
• Flexible working conditions

15. Casualisation of the Workplace

17. Benefits of Education and Training for
Employment
• A love of learning
develops stronger skills
and greater prospects of
job opportunities
• A multi skilled worker
will also have the ability
to adapt to a changing
jobs market

18. Albert Einstein
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at
death.”

21. ActivityTime

22. Types of Employment Contracts
• Both employer and
employee are bound by
an employment contract
• It is important to
remember that once
you accept the contract
you may be bound to
certain working
conditions

24. Award
• An award outlines the minimum conditions for
workers in a particular industry
• Some employers will pay above the award to keep
their workers compared to their competitors

25. Enterprise Agreement
• Negotiation between employee and employer to
decide an agreed contract of work and pay
conditions
• Enterprise Agreements can be arranged through the
assistance of a union/federation

26. Fair Work Agreement

27. Individual Workplace Agreement
• These agreements are done on a one to one basis
and can often be a secret between the boss and the
worker
• There is a potential threat to job security and
entitlements of workers under this arrangement

28. Common Law Agreements
• Agreements not done under a contract but both
employer and employee have rights under common
law if one party does not follow procedures

29. Rights and Entitlements of Workers

30. Unemployment
• Cyclical Unemployment
• When there is not enough aggregate demand in
the economy to provide jobs for everyone who
wants to work

33. • Frictional Unemployment
• The time period between jobs when a worker is
searching for or transitioning from one job to
another

34. • Structural
Unemployment
• focuses on the
structural problems
within an economy
and inefficiencies in
labor markets.