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Few Australian companies have been as harsh as Qantas in dealing with employees through the pandemic.
The bill put forth last week would bring welcome reforms to the Sex Discrimination Act and Fair Work Act. But it doesn’t go nearly far enough to protect women or prevent harassment at work.
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.
Our research shows most organisations have adapted well to staff working from home. But there’s a hole in workplace laws we need to address.
The Federal Court of Australia has rejected the notion workers can be employed as ‘permanent casuals’.
Redundancies can can leave businesses ill-placed placed for revival. The real estate listings firm Domain is trying something more promising.
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?
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…
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Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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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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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, ARC Future Fellow, 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, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Labour Law, University of Sydney
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