Universities have legitimate reasons for employing some staff on casual contracts, but the impacts of the COVID pandemic have brought long-standing problems to a head. Now is the time to act on these.
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It'll be harder for employers to underpay workers, but easier to offer them extra hours without penalty pay.
The federal government's industrial relations bill will fix a problem that doesn't exist by making a failed legal argument the law.
The government's latest industrial relations reform does little to change the power between employers and employees - with the former still strongly advantaged.
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Professor of Labour Law, University of Sydney
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John Bray Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Principal Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Monash University, Monash University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow, LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
