WORKPLACE REFORM

Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australian workers, businesses and the system of labour regulation: a special issue of the Australian Journal of Labour Law I recently had

‘The Patricks of the pandemic’: Qantas and the unlawful outsourcing of 2000 jobs (by Josh Bornstein & Anthony Forsyth) An edited version of this post was published under the authorship

Australian laws are not on the side of employers mandating Covid-19 vaccines, nor should they be (by Professor Joo-Cheong Tham) This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under

‘Thanks, but really, no thanks’: Morrison’s IR reform bill hurts our pandemic heroes An edited version of this post was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 19 February 2021: New

Casual employees: Why the Morrison government’s ‘double-dipping’ gambit fails the pub test This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog is by Professor Joo-Cheong Tham of Melbourne Law

Conflict or Cooperation? Australian Union Responses to COVID-19 Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University and Labour Law Down Under Blog. A longer version of this post was just published in Sachin Padya and

COVID-19 and Labour Law: Australia – Consensus Policy Formulation Fraying at the Edges Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University and Labour Law Down Under Blog  This article was originally published in the

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need to address insecure work This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog is by Professor Joo-Cheong Tham of Melbourne Law School.

‘Labour is not a commodity’ through the lens of a global pandemic Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University and Labour Law Down Under Blog – this post draws upon my Preface for

How the Pandemic has Impacted Workplace Investigations This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog, by Adriana Orifici – Lecturer, Department of Business Law and Taxation at

‘Regular and systematic’ casual employment: the black hole locking young workers out of JobKeeper Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University and Labour Law Down Under Blog The Young Workers Centre at Victorian

The post-pandemic case for unions Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University and Labour Law Down Under Blog – an edited version of this post was published in The Age and Sydney Morning

From Paul, Bob (and Bill) to Scott, Christian (and Sally) … Morrison’s IR reform consultation is no new ‘Accord’ Anthony Forsyth, RMIT University and Labour Law Down Under Blog –

We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants (by Prof David Peetz) This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog

Employment and immigration at the time of COVID-19 (by Dr Giovanni Di Lieto) This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog is by Dr Giovanni Di Lieto of

COVID-19 regulatory response: Facilitating necessary flexibility or an ideological attack on workers’ rights? (by Renee Burns) This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog is by Renee

COVID-19 can’t be used to shut the door on discrimination law reforms (by Dr Dominique Allen) This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog is by Dr

Age discrimination in a pandemic: COVID-19 and inequality at work (by Assoc Prof Alysia Blackham) This latest guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog, by Associate Professor Alysia

Thoughts on Foodora’s Canadian Exit: Have Labour Laws Been Violated? (by Prof David Doorey) This is the fifth guest contribution on the Labour Law Down Under Blog, and the first