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Complex to navigate, hard to enforce: Why pregnancy discrimination at work continues

Complex to navigate, hard to enforce: Why pregnancy discrimination at work continues

Employers can be unaware of their legal responsibilities or struggle to navigate complex workplace laws.

Dominique Allen

Adriana Orifici

Department of Business Law and Taxation

Post-COVID-19, can women demand more workplace flexibility?

Post-COVID-19, can women demand more workplace flexibility?

Businesses should seriously consider allowing female workers the flexibility to structure their work arrangements around family demands.

Dominique Allen

Adriana Orifici

Department of Business Law and Taxation

Fishing for global talent: what Australia needs to do now to lure skilled immigrants

Fishing for global talent: what Australia needs to do now to lure skilled immigrants

Highly skilled global talent follows economic opportunities. What policies should Australia adopt to attract these foreign workers?

Johannes Kunz

Centre for Health Economics

Finally, a legal definition of casual employment: What the High Court decision means

Finally, a legal definition of casual employment: What the High Court decision means

The ruling follows months of political and legal wrangling over the ‘proper nature’ of casual employment, but has continued to stoke controversy.

Department of Business Law and Taxation

The motherhood penalty: why employers fear women

The motherhood penalty: why employers fear women

Employers fear the ‘risk’ of pregnancy among younger women seeking part-time jobs, research reveals.  

Sascha Becker

Department of Economics

It’s just a gig: how the gig economy is stealing workers’ rights

It’s just a gig: how the gig economy is stealing workers’ rights

Freedom and flexibility versus no holiday or sick pay – and often no superannuation: that's the choice facing 'gig' economy workers. Is it time for them to be guaranteed certain basic rights?  

Carolyn Sutherland

Department of Business Law and Taxation

What Australia’s impending modern slavery reporting means for business

What Australia’s impending modern slavery reporting means for business

Proposed legislation will require Australian organisations to report on the risks of modern slavery in their operations and their supply chains.

Ingrid Landau

Department of Business Law and Taxation

Want wages growth? Then it’s back to the old ways

Want wages growth? Then it’s back to the old ways

A new paper from eminent industrial relations expert, Professor Joe Isaac, argues that to line up wages growth with labour productivity, the balance of power favouring employers against unions and workers must be corrected.

Joe Isaac

Department of Economics