Today I gave evidence before the Senate inquiry into the Closing Loopholes Bill and called on Parliament to support this important legislation — because it will improve protections for insecure workers, support responsible and productive businesses and benefit the wider economy

Great paper by Chris F Wright on multi-employer bargaining. Good for productivity, gender pay equity, decent work and voice. #alera23

Improving pay and productivity with sector collective bargaining — new King's Business School research impact report with CB. We find bargaining systems covering broad segments of the workforce can bring positive outcomes to workers, firms & wider society kcl.ac.uk/business/asset…

Mainstream Parties’ Construction of Populist Discourse in Australia’s Temporary Migration Policy. New article with @KyoungheeYu in @orgjournal journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Our December article of the month is the inaugural winner of the Nevile-Plowman Prize for Best Paper, Chris Wright and Stephen Clibborn’s ‘A guest-worker state? The declining power and agency of migrant labour in Australia’. Free to access til 2024. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We’ll that’s a pleasant surprise and an honour. Thanks The Economic and Labour Relations Review - ping co-author Chris F Wright

Employer groups say stronger union delegates rights “are a recipe for workplace chaos and disputation”. Nonsense — we deserve better than these evidence-free claims. A reminder of this 🧵👇 highlighting the overwhelming findings of research that these types of provisions:

Pleased the new ‘Skills in Demand visa’ (encouraging, evidence-based migration policy, addressing major flaws in TSS visa that contribute to exploitation) draws on ⁦Chris F Wright⁩ and my ‘mobility visa’ submission to the Parkinson Review See also: researchgate.net/publication/37…

Lots of talk from the Australian government today about closing immigration back doors and side doors Here’s some detail from ⁦Chris F Wright⁩ and me on problems with those doors (from 2018): researchgate.net/publication/32…

Replacing the flawed, employer-tied TSS visa with a Skills in Demand visa allowing workers to leave exploitative jobs more easily is a key aspect of the new 🇦🇺 Migration Strategy. Stephen Clibborn and me on why this ‘mobility visa’ model is a game-changer thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/1…

Coming very soon! Here's a sneak preview of the Industrial Relations first issue of 2024.

New The Economic and Labour Relations Review article with Stephen Clibborn on mobility visas as a fair and more effective alternative to employer-sponsorship cited in the Australian government’s Migration Strategy released this week

Workers in Australia will soon have the ‘right to disconnect’. Some thoughts from me in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand on what this reform means — and why it is necessary to protect workers from employers encroaching upon their free-time theconversation.com/smart-phones-m…

Looking forward to presenting Colm McLaughlin and my research on ‘Social dialogue and job retention policy reform in response to COVID: The triumph of pragmatism over ideology’ at the inaugural International Labour Organization / ILERA Research Webinar on 24 April. Details below👇

Decent labour standards are a prerequisite for perceived justice and social cohesion. Read again Chris F Wright & William Brown’s 2018 'Policies for Decent Labour Standards in Britain'. Free to view for one month onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #minimumwage #collectivebargaining