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Labour Law Seminar Series

These free public seminars are intended to be of interest to a wide audience including academics, members of the legal profession, and those engaged in the day to day business of industrial relations and/or human resource management. They provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of preliminary research results and to that end are designed both to be informative and to engender critical discussion and debate. The seminars are usually held at lunchtime and a light lunch is provided, so RSVPs to the Centre Administrator are essential.


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2008 
15 October

Upcoming:  Looking for the Hook: The Problem in Proving Race Discrimination

Jennifer Nielsen is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Law & Justice at Southern Cross University (NSW). In this seminar she will discuss the difficulties involved in proving complaints of race discrimination, arguing that anti-discrimination jurisprudence is informed by 'white' ways of thinking that ultimately tend to reproduce, rather that reduce, Aboriginal inequality.

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23 September

Towards National Child Employment Laws?
10 September

Making Labour Law in Nepal: the ILO in Action
29 August Do Investment Attraction Incentives Create Decent Jobs? A Study of Labour Conditions in Industry Assistance Contracts
16 June Employee Majority Bargaining Systems: Comparing Developments in the United States and Australia
6 June 'Time on your back': Billable Hours and the Work of Solicitors in Private Practice'
28 May What Kind of 'Flexibility' in Labour and Employment Regulation for Economic Development?
19 March Union Revitalisation Campaigns: A US-Japan Comparison
6 March The Path to a National IR System
18 February Control over Working Time: Lessons from Canada

 

 

2007 
18 December Legal Loyalties: Reconciling Employee Loyalty, Organisational Misconduct and Whistleblower Protection
06 December Child Labour in the Contemporary United States: Statutory and Enforcement Problems
29 November Mandatory Secret Ballots before Industrial Action: Practicle Hurdle or Symbol of Strike Action as a Last Resort
31 October Freedom to Fire: Economic Dismissals under Work Choices
24 September A Fair and Balanced Industrial Relations Policy for Australia (Listen to the speech by Julia Gillard here)
31 August All Stitched Up? The 2007 Amendments to the Safety Net
3 August Post-communism and the Regulation of Industrial relations in an Enlarged European Union
6 July

Developments in Employment Contract Law
22 June Long Working Weeks in Australia: The Empirical Evidence
8 June Criminal Records and Employment: Is the System Working for You?
18 May Opting Out of State Occupational Health and Safety Laws: The Implications of Recent High Court Decisions
3 April Good Faith Bargaining in Practice: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience
9 March Outwork Regulation in Australia: Does it Work?

 

 

2006 
12 December The Methods and Rationales of EU Intervention in Labour Law
27 October The Future of Employee Representation: Policy Options for Australia
6 October Rivals, Acquaintances, Friends or Bedfellows? The Changing Interplay Between Labour Law and Social Security Law.
24 August 'Light-touch' Labour Regulation as a State Government Response to Work Choices
19 July Race, Discrimination and Employment in South Africa: What are the Limits of an Employer’s Legal Obligations?

27 June

Measuring Working Time Laws: Texts, Observance and Effective Regulation
8 June Between Flexibility and Rights: Trends in Labour Law Reform in Latin America
26 May Are casual employees legally precarious? An analysis
19 April Work Choices or No Choices
24 March Legal Ignorance and Information-Forcing Rules
17 March The International Financial Institutions and Labour Standards - Emerging Issues

 

 

2005 
21 October The Victorian Law Reform Commission’s Workplace Privacy Report: A Model for Regulating Workplace Privacy
4 October The Diversity Approach to Achieving Equality: helping or hindering?
3 October UK changes in collective workplace representation: from single to two-channel representation
9 September Farewell to All That? The AIRC’s Test Case on Work and Family
12 August Regulating Prisoners’ Labour: A Paradox in International Law

 


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