For workers still being deliberately underpaid, it’s vital to ensure these laws are actually working.
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Australia has adopted a tougher, more targeted approach than New Zealand to investigating wage theft by employers – and it doesn’t involve the police.
If an organisation mandates their workers return to the workplace – whether exclusively or in part – it needs to provide clear guidelines.
Federal Labor made an election promise to criminalise wage theft. But there are better reforms more urgently needed.
Exploitation flourishes because regulators do not routinely detect or punish labour law noncompliance.
Victoria has mandated COVID vaccinations for an estimated 1.25 million workers. Employment law expert Giuseppe Carabetta explains the legalities.
There are only limited circumstances where workplace vaccine mandates are likely to be found legally justifiable.
We protect the savings of non-resident people in Australia but we leave them without any benefits if they lose their job here.
Research suggests harsher civil or criminal penalties will not automatically lead to greater compliance by employers with workplace laws.
As many as half of all temporary migrant workers are being underpaid. After a two-year inquiry, the Migrant Workers’ Taskforce has provided a blueprint to do something about it.
That the Fair Work Ombudsman brought a case against Foodora suggests its workers are most likely to be classified as employees. This could dissuade other platforms from offering similar benefits.
Cutting penalty rates can be a vote-changer and the looming Fair Work Commission decision is tricky for both sides of politics. So what cards do the parties hold and how might they play them?
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Associate Professor of Workplace and Business Law, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Law, Adelaide University
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, The University of Western Australia
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, University of Sydney