.Tonia Novitz's new book on labour, trade and sustainable development is out! No doubt will soon become a touchstone in the area.

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Join us for tonight's Labour Law Seminar on Regulating Child Employment in Australia. Our panelists will be Prof Paula McDonald (QUT), Josh Peak (SDA) and Acting Principal Advisor Marcus Bongiorno (Wage Inspectorate Victoria) eventbrite.com.au/e/regulating-c…

🌟 🪧 Announcing the publication of the latest issue in #JIR Volume 65 No. 4 -> buff.ly/3lmSDX3
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Serious question: Is society better off with strikes, or without them? Australia is now a society without strikes; it is bipartisan policy that a government body must decide whether workers can withdraw their labour, and it’s virtually impossible to do it. Employers can always

Our article “Regulatory pluralism and the resolution of collective labour disputes in Southeast Asia” is now published in Volume 65, Issue 4 of Journal of Industrial Relations and is available at doi.org/10.1177/002218… Carolyn Sutherland Petra Mahy Trang Tran CELRL LEAH

My new article in the @SMH on why the why Parliament must pass the Closing Loopholes Bill — because it will improve protections for insecure workers, strengthen productive businesses and the wider economy, and benefit Australia👇🧵
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Check out this new CELRL #Policy Brief on the Vic Fair Jobs Code and how #publicprocurement can best be used to improve labour standards #socialprocurement #ausir

Check out this #policy brief by Ingrid Landau, John Howe of CELRL & Hannah Irving of Melbourne School of Government on the Vic Fair Jobs Code! The brief includes key recs for how #publicprocurement policies can reinforce #labour standards & #humanrights in 🇦🇺 shorturl.at/lIJL0

'In addition to gender, ancestry and Indigenous status, statistics on the judiciary should be regularly recorded [about] age, disability, professional background, sexual orientation,
socio-economic status, and year of first judicial appointment.'

#auslaw #diversity

Want to know more about Dr Sophie Lamond's 37 contracts with University of Melbourne since 2017? Here's a short interview.

Except for University of MelbourneMDHS, every faculty Sophie worked for was restructured so many times that 'It's hard to keep track of which departments I've worked for.'

#UnimelbStrikes

Good morning! If you’re wondering where to go this AM:

10am: teach in by Sara Meger on gendered exploitation in the university
11am: ‘we will rest’ session with Erin Buckley - bring blankets!

+ pickets at Melbourne Law School, 757 Swanston & Baillieu Library 🤩

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37 contracts since 2017 says it all really #unimelbstrikes

This week I am joining NTEU member colleagues at Melbourne Law School in a one week strike because key issues important to us are yet to be resolved in enterprise bargaining with the University, including secure jobs and fair workloads NTEU UniMelb Branch unimelbebanow.com

Too often employers build empires on the back of worker exploitation. It's a sad indictment… ⁦Adele Ferguson⁩ in ⁦The Age⁩ #wagetheft

#UnimelbStrikes You may have read in the news (if you’re Australian) that staff at the University of Melbourne are going on strike next week. I am one of those people. Here’s a personal account of why I am doing so. I want us to work together, collegially. whatkatydid.net/p/stricken-uni…

📢📢📢 In addition to the University-wide strike on 28 August, Melbourne Law School & Faculty of Arts voted to take an unprecedented weeklong stop work action from the 28th. More University of Melbourne work areas will be voting to join in the coming days.

#UnimelbStrikes

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Much looking forward to hosting this event at Melbourne Law School on 15 August with our guest, Dr Don Russell, chair of AustralianSuper and one of the best thinkers on super policy we have.

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The housing crisis is pushing more Australian renters into poverty. We need urgent change. Former Housing Minister Brian Howe in ⁦⁦Guardian Australia⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our article Regulatory pluralism and the resolution of collective labour disputes in Southeast Asia has been published in ⁦Journal of Industrial Relations⁩ - with Ingrid Landau, Trang Tran, Petra Mahy, and ⁦Carolyn Sutherland⁩ ⁦CELRL⁩ ⁦LEAH⁩ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Talking Public Procurement and labour rights at #RDW2023 Olga Martin-Ortega and Martina Trusgnach