Workplace and Corporate Law Research Group
News and Events 2009
October
Research Reports on Workplace Agreements by Carolyn Sutherland
Two reports have just been made available on the WCLRG website, both of them completed by Carolyn Sutherland for the former Victorian Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate:
August
New WCLRG Research for the Business Council of Australia
On 9 August 2009, the Business Council released its Policy Discussion Paper: 'Embedding Workplace Collaboration: Preventing Disputes', available at: http://www.bca.com.au/Content/101598.aspx
(scroll down to the bottom of this web-page for a link to the full paper).
This Paper is based on research carried out by the Workplace and Corporate Law Research Group for the BCA, examining the dispute prevention roles of public dispute resolution agencies in the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada; and how the new regulatory institutions created by the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) can play a similar role in Australia, to assist workplace relations parties to develop best practice employment relationships and increase productivity.
May
Book launch
'Fair Work: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy', to be co-hosted by WCLRG & the Centre for Labour Relations Law at Melbourne university.
The launch by Commissioner Greg Smith AM of the AIRC will be held at the Melbourne Law School on Wednesday evening, 6 May 2009.
March
Latest Workplace Law Research
1. WCLRG Working Paper No 13 (March 2009): 'Third Party Intervention
Reconsidered: New Roles for Australian Industrial Tribunals', by Anthony
Forsyth & Holly Smart (the working paper is available at:
http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/blt/wclrg/working-papers.html).
2.WCLRG's Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace
Relations Committee - Inquiry into the Fair Work Bill 2008, by Carolyn
Sutherland, Anthony Forsyth and Chris Arup. Our submission addresses
issues related to the Fair Work Information Statement in the National
Employment Standards, the small claims procedure for minimum employment
entitlements, and the dispute prevention role of Fair Work Australia
(the working paper is available at:
http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/blt/wclrg/submissions.html).
3. WCLRG has jointly sponsored, with the Centre for Employment and
Labour Relations Law at Melbourne University, an 18-month research
project that will culminate with the imminent publication of the
following book (published by The Federation Press):
'FAIR WORK', The New Workplace Laws and The Work Choices Legacy
edited by Anthony Forsyth
<http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/author.asp?id=1206>
and Andrew Stewart
<http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/author.asp?id=105>,
publishing late March 2009. RRP $85.00 / SPECIAL OFFER
$64.95 (Offer ends 31 March 2009)
http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781862877368
For further information on this title please contact Josephine Romeo at
Federation Press on 02 9552 2200.
February
WCLRG Members Win Prizes at Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference
Best Paper Prize
Members of the Workplace and Corporate Law Research Group, Mark Bender and Abe Herzberg, with Lee Gordon-Brown (Dept of Econometrics), won the Best Paper Prize at the CLTA Conference held in Sydney on 2-3 February 2009.
The Prize was awarded for their inter-disciplinary paper: 'Characteristics Of Companies In Voluntary Administration: An Empirical Review'.
Second Prize
WCLRG's Deputy Director, Michelle Welsh, winner of the Best Paper Prize at the 2007 CLTA Conference, was this year awarded the Second Prize for her paper: 'Testing the Correspondence between State Enforcement and Voluntary Compliance'.
These prizes recognise the outstanding research of these academics, and the strength of the Department of Business Law and Taxation in corporate law teaching and research.
New Book on Climate Change Law
WCLRG member, Wayne Gumley, is the co-editor of a new book: 'Climate
Change Law: Comparative, Contractual & Regulatory Considerations'
(Thomson, 2008).
The book brings together recent work on the law of climate change in
Australia and New Zealand by leading environmental law practitioners and
academics. It provides practical and insightful perspectives on the
rapidly emerging market-based framework for regulation of climate change
in Oceania.
This valuable collection originates from a highly successful 2008
National Conference of the National Environmental Law Association of
Australia (NELA), held at Fremantle, Western Australia. Further details
about the book are available at 'Thomson Reuters'.
Group Director
Anthony Forsyth
Email Anthony Forsyth
Tel: + 61 3 9903-2917
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