Associate Professor, University of Sydney. Researching employment relations & regulation, (non)compliance, labour migration.
Sydney, Australia
Joined March 2015
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Minimum wage used to be sacrosanct - if an employer couldn’t pay, it shouldn’t be in business
Now business lobby argues against more enforcement of min. wages, lest employers go out of business
We explain the change in who the min. wage protects – from worker to business owner
NEW ARTICLE:
‘Non-enforcement of Minimum Wage laws and the Shifting Protective Subject of Labour Law in Australia: A New Province for Law and Order?’
I’m very pleased to publish this with @StephenClibborn in @SydneyLawReview
Advance access: sydney.edu.au/content/dam/co…
I first heard the term ‘wage theft’ when I worked in the United States in the early 2000s. Framing of unlawful underpayment as ‘wage theft’ really took off in Australia after 2015. Excellent article @jcgmurphy @katielovelock @emilyrosefoley
We looked especially at the framing of the issue. We were surprised to find the term "wage theft" really was not used at all before @StephenClibborn used it to describe the 7Eleven scandal in 2015...
Some insights from my recent empirical research into the employer perspective on wage law non-compliance (as well as my previous research with @ChrisFWright ) in this ABC RN report, The Cost of Wage Theft abc.net.au/listen/programs/t…
NEW ARTICLE
I’m pleased to share @ChrisFWright ‘s and my new article, examining flawed employer-tied TSS visa and proposing internationally-unique mobility visa as alternative, to better protect workers and address labour market needs more effectively
doi.org/10.1017/elr.2023.56
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Lots of talk from the Australian government today about closing immigration back doors and side doors
Here’s some detail from @ChrisFWright and me on problems with those doors (from 2018): researchgate.net/publication…
Pleased the new ‘Skills in Demand visa’ (encouraging, evidence-based migration policy, addressing major flaws in TSS visa that contribute to exploitation) draws on @ChrisFWright and my ‘mobility visa’ submission to the Parkinson Review
See also: researchgate.net/publication…
We’ll that’s a pleasant surprise and an honour. Thanks @TheELRR - ping co-author @ChrisFWright
Our December article of the month is the inaugural winner of the Nevile-Plowman Prize for Best Paper, Chris Wright and Stephen Clibborn’s ‘A guest-worker state? The declining power and agency of migrant labour in Australia’.
Free to access til 2024.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Great to see our article (with @FNFlanagan) in hard copy in @SydneyLawReview - also: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
‘Non-Enforcement of Minimum Wage Laws and the Shifting Protective Subject of Labour Law in Australia: A New Province for Law and Order?’
Photo (if you know, you know):
We’re looking forward to hosting Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations @Tony_Burke at @sydney_business when he delivers the 30th Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture on 24 August.
All welcome - register here: sydney.edu.au/business/our-r…
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Some thoughts from me on the question, “Is it really worth joining my union?” smh.com.au/business/workplac…
As govt makes policies to address wage theft, it should aim to increase employer compliance (sounds obvious, but recent policies haven’t)
Including unions in co-enforcement of wage laws will help.
My new opinion piece @smh
@sydney_business smh.com.au/business/workplac…
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As govt makes policies to address wage theft, it should aim to increase employer compliance (sounds obvious, but recent policies haven’t)
Including unions in co-enforcement of wage laws will help.
My new opinion piece @smh
@sydney_business smh.com.au/business/workplac…
Our new opinion article:
‘Maintaining Australia’s status as an immigration nation’
On the need for better aligned migration and employment policies
With @ChrisFWright
In @east_asia_forum
Integrating #migration and #employment regulations would improve Australia’s migration system, write @StephenClibborn and @ChrisFWright (@sydney_business). #Australia #ImmigrationPolicy buff.ly/3MISBnl
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NEW ARTICLE:
‘The employer perspective on wage law non-compliance: State of the field and a framework for new understanding’
I’m really pleased to publish this with @s_hannaosborne in @IR_Berkeley
OPEN ACCESS: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
“For the purposes of this Act, any effect of the Migration Act 1958, or an instrument made under that Act, on the validity of a contract of employment, or the validity of a contract for services, is to be disregarded” Protecting Worker Entitlements Bill
Step in right direction
Encouraging signs (pending the actual wording of the Bill). I’ve been arguing since 2015 for this kind of amendment to the Fair Work Act tonyburke.com.au/media-relea…
Encouraging signs (pending the actual wording of the Bill). I’ve been arguing since 2015 for this kind of amendment to the Fair Work Act tonyburke.com.au/media-relea…
@Casey Neistat (longstanding NYC bike lane expert) has us covered on the proposed NYC bike lane law
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ksZoz…
What can the Australian government learn about stopping wage theft, from a proposed New York City bike lane law?
My words in the @smh smh.com.au/business/workplac…
What can the Australian government learn about stopping wage theft, from a proposed New York City bike lane law?
My words in the @smh smh.com.au/business/workplac…
NEW ARTICLE in @MelbULRev
with Joanna Howe and Elizabeth Shi:
Fruit picking in fear: an examination of sexual harassment on Australian farms
law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/as…
Encouraging signs in @andrewjgiles speech at @Sydney_Uni @SydneyPolicyLab - The Govt:
“will ensure no migrant is ‘permanently temporary’” and “will not stand idly by and watch the exploitation of migrants on an industrial scale” minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/…
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