AIER has made a submission to the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into the workplace relations framework.
Our submission articulates an approach to workplace relations regualtion founded in human rights and framed around the concept of decent work.
We argue that the workplace relations system must recognise the essential human nature of work. Workplace relations laws and policies regulate relationships between people. They are socially beneficial laws that should respect the dignity of the people engaged in work. The conventions of the International Labour Organisation are important benchmarks by which to assess the performance of our workplace relations system in meeting these goals.
- 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]