A New Work Relations Architecture

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These times of climate crisis, digital disruption, growing inequality and economic uncertainty call for a bold new vision of work relations in Australia.

A New Work Relations Architecture draws on years of research by some of Australias leading work relations experts and practitioners in academia, business and unions. Written for the Australian Institute of Employment Rights, the book models the most comprehensive and fundamental reform of the work relations system proposed in many years. It is a redesign, from the ground up, that combines the best of the old and the new.

The AIER model for Australian work relations is a universal, future-proof and flexible system that would fill the holes and gaps currently leaving many workers behind. Presented in this book is a substantively fairer system that would better promote gender equality, human rights, security, cooperation and prosperity. As the book outlines, the system draws on the outcomes-oriented approach of the work health and safety system and on new directed devolution theory in a unified and universal system of work laws that includes all workers. Gig workers and dependent contractors, as well as new forms of working not yet imagined in the rapidly changing world of work, would be covered by this forward-focussed approach.

Written in a highly accessible style, with humorous, offbeat illustrations by Stephen Mushin, this book serves not only as a roadmap for reform but as an engaging introduction to work relations and its connection to many of Australias most pressing social and economic issues.

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Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum AO widely recognised as one of Australias leading labour law academics, Ron is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship in any field at any university in Australia or New Zealand. He was the foundation Blake Dawson Waldron Professor in Australia Law and Dean of Law at the University of Sydney Law School between 1993 and 2007, and the Professor of Labour Law at Sydney Law School between 2008 and 2010.

Professor Anna Chapman a professor in the Law School at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at the university.

Michael Harmer the founding partner, chairman and senior team leader of Harmers Workplace Lawyers, one of Australias leading employment law firms.

Professor Marilyn Pittard a professor of Law at Monash University, with teaching and research expertise in labour law.

Emeritus Professor David Peetz a Professor of Employment Relations at Griffith University and a co-researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for Research on Globalization and Work in Canada.

The Hon. Paul Munro Paul served from 1986 to 2004 as a senior presidential member of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

Dr Margaret McKenzie an academic economist with a PhD in economics from Birkbeck, University of London, as well as having taught and researched at a number of universities in both Australia and the United Kingdom.

James Fleming the executive director of the Australian Institute of Employment Rights, with experience as a lawyer in industrial relations for government, unions and the community legal sector.