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The Supreme Court on June 29, 2023, changed the definition of ‘undue hardship’ so that employers have to accommodate more of workers’ religious requests.
Improving the ability for worker’s voices and perspectives to be heard in the workplace could have wide ranging benefits for employers and broader society at large.
Public support for unions is at a near 60-year high. Meanwhile, self-organizers at major American chains are spearheading a new movement to mobilize.
How we get the balance right between using social media to hold people to account versus the risk of invading people’s privacy depends on the context, of course, and is ultimately about power.
For Canadians hoping to emerge from the pandemic with better jobs, a stronger economy and reduced inequality, employee ownership combined with employee participation is a promising way to get there.
A recent survey reveals only limited employee support for workplace vaccine mandates, underlining how challenging the policy will be for lawmakers and employers.
The legal ground in Australia for employers to insist that employees be vaccinated is murky.
In post-pandemic Canada, the media will play a big role in shaping public understanding of labour conditions. A future of work that is safe and equitable requires the voices of workers.
The British Supreme Court ruling in favour of Uber drivers offers some hope that gig workers, many of them immigrants, might finally be given basic rights. But there’s still lots of work to do.
Whether an employer can insist on vaccination as a condition of employment is an ambiguous legal question, as shown by two recent unfair dismissal cases.
On Wednesday, the government will introduce industrial relations legislation allowing businesses affected by COVID to be exempt from the Better Off Overall Test (BOOT) in enterprise agreements.
With the recession exposing more workers to the vagaries of gig work, it’s more urgent than ever to close the legal loopholes that deny workers employment rights.
Biometric data is forever. Any employer seeking to collect it has big obligations to meet. And employees have the right to object.
Courts and contracts have given employers greater power to control the private or out-of-hours conduct of employees.
It is the Australian Tax Office, not the Fair Work Commission, making the big waves with the Foodora case and the future of the gig economy.
Tech companies overseas are signing collective agreements with their employees. Might Australia be next?
Could an employer or platform claim copyright in a chat group? We’d first have to accept that conversations in a chat group are protected by copyright.
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Associate Professor of Business and Society, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
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Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Professor in Human Resource Management and Employee Relations, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Sociology, Monash University
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Management, RMIT University
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Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Head of School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing, Massey University
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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