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Seemingly innocuous security chips could enable companies to monitor employees in more sinister ways.
Comic contracts can meet all the requirements for contracts to be legally binding.
Tech companies overseas are signing collective agreements with their employees. Might Australia be next?
When people get locked into the gig economy, it adversely affects other areas of their lives, from health to housing
With no guarantee of work or pay, is the stress of flexible work contracts affecting the health of workers?
Workers in the gig economy have to deal with labour insecurity but they also take on more risk by using their own money to buy the tools they need to work.
Life is messy – and it's time we accepted that.
Digital technology makes it easy for people to join the so-called "gig" economy and compete for work. But what employment rights does this online workforce really have, if any?
Past hiring discrimination appears to lead African Americans to cast a wide net, while women tend to seek out roles historically associated with their gender.
Richard Branson has introduced a radical new policy for Virgin employees, offering his personal staff unlimited holiday rather than a fixed number of days in a given year. Announcing the idea on his blog…
The argument that strong employment rights are incompatible with economic growth has long exerted a strong influence on the minds of politicians. The relentless economic difficulties in the EU since 2008…
Footballers are employees, and they deserve the same protections from loss of earnings through injury as you or I. But the astronomical sums involved in the modern game could lead to a worrying situation…
If you are a carer, the need for flexibility can creep up slowly or arrive overnight. Guardian journalist Jackie Ashley and her broadcaster husband Andrew Marr experienced this after he suffered a stroke…
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Professor of Information Systems and Services, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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Principal Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds
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Professor of management, Director of the Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Work, Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre (WOERRC), University of Sheffield
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Adjunct Fellow, Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor of Work and Organisation, University of Nottingham
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SIRE Chair in Economics, University of Aberdeen
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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
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Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and HRM, University of Southampton
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Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Harvard University
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Associate Professor, University of Aberdeen
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