Recent developments in the organisation of production have led to the decline of wage employment across much of the world.
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Strip away the sexy marketing and what you have is just another digital platform shifting legal responsibilities and risks.
The pandemic home-delivery boom is driving a push to automation and precarious work by Australian supermarkets.
The Fair Work Commission’s ruling that delivery rider Diego Franco was an employee of Deliveroo is a major legal win for Australia’s gig workers.
Food-ordering platform Menulog has declared it will break with the standard contractor business model. But let’s not get too excited yet.
Uber has been forced by the UK courts to treat its British drivers as workers. It will probably require legislative change for Uber’s Australian drivers to be treated as employees.
One of the factors that has made COVID-19 so catastrophic in long-term care homes was lack of paid sick leave for low-wage workers.
The federal government’s industrial relations bill will fix a problem that doesn’t exist by making a failed legal argument the law.
The practice of ‘casual’ employment has become a means to foster insecurity and low power, depriving many workers of leave under the guise of an alleged need for flexibility.
The number of people on zero-hours contracts has increased during the pandemic, but they don’t seem to figure in the chancellor’s recovery plans.
We need a holistic response that considers the systemic reasons that force people to lie about working.
Juggling work and family becomes all the more difficult when you’re trying to figure out how to work Zoom, and stressing about losing your job.
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.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the dangers of unhealthy workplaces and disempowered workers.
Workers who experience job insecurity over several consecutive years become less emotionally stable, less agreeable and less conscientious.
The historically high level of informal work in Latin America will make its recovery much more difficult than elsewhere.
The failure to anticipate the consequence of workers having no paid sick leave is one of the greatest flaws in Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The earned income tax credit lifts around 6 million of the working poor out of poverty every year, but with the economy hammered by COVID-19, many might not get the benefit they need.
The federal government must provide more support if Victorian businesses and households are to survive the state’s Stage 4 lockdown.
Uber drivers are back in court for a final showdown with the American company.
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Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, and Bankwest Research Chair in Economic Policy, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Deputy Director, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge, and Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Dean of Law, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Salford
