Work Arrangements in Container Stevedoring

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Abbreviations, Glossary, Overview

1   About this study
1.1   Approach
1.2   Report structure

2   Container stevedoring in Australia
2.1   Industry structure and operation
2.2   Employment in stevedoring
2.3   Reform of stevedoring services

3   Workplace culture
3.1   Brief history of employee and management relations in stevedoring
3.2   Poor workplace culture
3.3   Sea-Land
3.4   Summary of findings

4   Roistering
4.1   Main features of roster system
4.2   Constraints on roster system
4.3   Reducing the impact of constraints
4.4   Shiftwork and occupational health and safety
4.5   Summary of findings

5   Manning
5.1   Gang sizes
5.2   Manning levels
5.3   Contracting

6   Recruitment, redundancy and contracting
6.1   Recruitment
6.2   Redundancy
6.3   Contracting
6.4   Summary of findings

7   Remuneration
7.1   Remuneration schemes
7.2   Productivity schemes
7.3   The 'aggregate wage' approach to remuneration
7.4   Hours worked
7.5   Wage levels
7.6   Summary of findings

8   Paid non-working time
8.1   Leave arrangements
8.2   Shift breaks, delays and unplanned absences
8.3   Minimum payments
8.4   Summary of findings

9   Enabling change
9.1   Need for change
9.2   Workplace-level factors
9.3   Industry-level factors
9.4   Improved legislative framework
9.5   Summary of findings

A   Participation and visits

B   Research method

C   Labour tasks and the container stevedoring process

D   Employee characteristics

E   Factors affecting the loading and unloading of ships

F   Reforms in the stevedoring industry

G   Occupational health and safety

H   Disciplinary measures

I   The New Zealand experience

J   Workplace negotiations, awards and agreements

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