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Australia and the system of arbitration in Singapore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Chris Leggett  and
Gordon Stewart
Chris Leggett*
Affiliation:
James Cook University, Australia
Gordon Stewart
Affiliation:
Central Queensland University, Australia
*
Chris Leggett, School of Management, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia. Email: Chris.Leggett@jcu.edu.au
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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to record and analyse the historical circumstances in which Singapore complemented its legacy of British-type collective bargaining with the compulsory arbitration system long practiced in Australia. It notes the role of Australians (particularly one Australian industrial relations scholar at the University of Malaya) in the inception and adoption of industrial arbitration in Singapore. It seeks to identify, analyse, explain and assess the extent of the subsequent divergence of Singapore’s regulatory industrial relations regime from that of Australia since the 1960s. In doing so, it contributes to Asia-Pacific labour history and adds to the literature on international and comparative labour relations with its focus on cross-national influences on national industrial relations regimes.

Keywords

L5N30N45Australiaconvergence/divergenceindustrial relationsjudicial arbitrationlabour historySingapore
Type
Symposium Articles
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 25 , Issue 1: Symposium - Work, Workplaces and Industrial Relations , March 2014 , pp. 115 - 129
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2013

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