Thursday, 22 October 2020, 6-8pm
This year’s AIER Ron McCallum Debate on Labour Relations and Pandemics: Past, Present, Future will be chaired by Justice Iain Ross AO, President of the Fair Work Commission. The briefing paper for the event can be found here.
Introduced by Greg Vines, Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organization with Reflections by Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum AO.
Our 2020 debate panel includes:
· Sally McManus, Secretary, Australian Council of Trade Unions
· Jennifer Westacott AO, Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia
· Innes Willox, Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group
· Annie Butler, Federal Secretary, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation
· Joellen Riley Munton, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
. David Peetz FASSA, Professor of Employment Relations, Griffith University
A free public event, proudly sponsored by:
- 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]