Five decades ago Australia's industrial relations system endorsed the concept of 'equal pay for equal work'. So why does the gender pay gap endure?
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What makes Folau's case unique is that it sets up a clash between employment contract law and legal protections against discrimination on the basis of religion.
As many as half of all temporary migrant workers are being underpaid. After a two-year inquiry, the Migrant Workers’ Taskforce has provided a blueprint to do something about it.
Even with the most favourable laws, unions will still need to confront the reality of a dramatic transformation in the world of work.
It's uncommon internationally for workers to have a statutory right to paid domestic violence leave, but things may be shifting.
Are penalty rates no longer relevant in the retail industry — and do they cost jobs? Recent research compared two neighbouring states where one raised rates to the other's level to find the answer.
Cutting penalty rates can be a vote-changer and the looming Fair Work Commission decision is tricky for both sides of politics. So what cards do the parties hold and how might they play them?
The Fair Work Act delivers a much more peculiar system of collective bargaining than many realise. It has outcomes that contradict the hopes and fears of both sides of the IR debate.
Scott McIntyre's legal challenge against being sacked by SBS will be an interesting test of whether the Fair Work Act offers any safe haven for employees to maintain a personal and political identity.
When the federal government asked the Productivity Commission (PC) to conduct a review into certain aspects of workplace laws, it argued a “root and branch” inquiry was urgently needed. As everyone gears…
The Abbott government will soon ask the Productivity Commission to review the Fair Work system. In parallel with that review, we need a more sophisticated debate about our workplace relations framework…
Over the course of the last few months, industrial relations has once again become a major issue on the national political agenda. Allegations of union corruption, uncompetitive wage deals, inflexible…
If you were to choose one buzzword that, despite its vagueness, has dominated industrial relations debate over three decades, it would be “flexibility”. It has emerged again in rhetoric surrounding Toyota’s…
It is easy to see why media coverage of Paul Howes’ National Press Club address has focused on his claims that wage growth has been too high in some areas and that the adversarial industrial relations…
The Abbott Government is this year preparing to revive the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) after it was renamed and stripped of many of its powers by the Gillard Government in 2012…
As global attention has focused this week on the issue of violence against women via the One Billion Rising movement, Australia is at the forefront of a wholly new approach to dealing with the impacts…
The federal government’s response to the House of Representatives inquiry into workplace bullying is a welcome development in preventing this workplace hazard. 19 of the 23 recommendations were supported…
There have been renewed calls from employers - mainly in the retail sector - for reductions in the wage premiums (or penalty rates) that industries are required to pay staff for work undertaken at non-standard…
The post implementation review of the Fair Work Act, 2009, was released this afternoon. A three member panel – Professor Ron McCallum, Dr John Edwards and Michael Moore – produced the three hundred–odd…
The majority of Australians would prefer higher living standards. This can take the form of better access to better healthcare services and education, better environmental outcomes, more time for friends…
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Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Professor, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, Associate Dean, University of Sydney Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Reader and Associate Professor in Law, La Trobe University
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Professor of Management + Director, Centre for Workplace Leadership, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Aviation, UNSW
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Head of the Discipline of Business Analytics, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Research Affiliate, Women and Work Research Group, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, UTS Law School, University of Technology Sydney
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Theme Leader, Centre for Workplace Leadership, Professor of Management & Associate Dean (Global Engagement), University of Melbourne
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Professor of Employment Studies, University of Newcastle
