The decision to require the President of Fair Work Australia to appear before the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Reference Committee (SEEWRR) is an attack on the independence of this important tribunal.
AIER has made a formal Statement setting out its concerns regarding this matter. AIER earnestly submits that responsible elements within the Senate should act as promptly as practicable to rescind the Senate Motion of 28 October 2009. The Statement will be forwarded to all sitting Senators and those who will take up their role in the second half of 2011.
Statement re Independence of FWA
- Executive Member, AIER
- Sean Scalmer is Professor of Australian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at Melbourne University. Sean studied political economy and political science at the University of Sydney, before undertaking a PhD on intellectuals and class in the Australian labour movement. He worked as a research fellow in the Department of Politics, Macquarie University (1998-2004), then as a Lecturer in Sociology (2004-2006) at the same University. He joined the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2007. Sean’s major interests are in the histories of social movements, class, and democracy. orders for food delivery platform workers. [Bio from Sean Scalmer’s Melbourne University webpage]