The first episode “The Machine as Boss: Regulating the Gig Economy and Algorithmic Management” is available now!

The first AIER newsletter for 2021 is available now.

James Fleming has been appointed the new Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Employment Rights. 

The Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019 (‘EI Bill’) has been re-introduced to Parliament couched in talk of the rule of law and “appalling behaviour” by union officials and sections of the union movement. But look beyond the...

originally featured on the Labour Law Down Under Blog The Enforceable Undertaking entered into between MasterChef star George Calombaris’s MADE Establishment Pty Ltd and the Fair Work Ombudsman makes for interesting reading. The celebrity chef has rightly copped a...

Nearly one week on from the Coalition Government’s ‘miracle’ election win the Australian labour movement is asking itself what went wrong. This time around Australia did not vote to change the rules, perhaps some hesitancy might be attributed to the lack of detail around industry level bargaining, perhaps the ALP policy suite was too broad to be fully grasped, perhaps $55 million dollars directed at polarising the electorate is depressingly effective.

With less than two weeks remaining of the federal election campaign we take this opportunity to look at what the major parties have proposed for workplace relations.

The AIER supports a definition of “casual” work where use of casual employment is restricted to those circumstances that are genuinely unpredictable and short term. The introduction of an additional category of worker, as proposed by the NSWBC would result in increased complexity while entrenching insecurity and inequality within our system.