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Invited Speakers and PanellistsKeynote SpeakersJeff Lawrence, ACTU SecretaryJeff Lawrence took office as Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) on 21 August 2007. He has served the Australian union movement for 30 years, including as head of one of Australia’s largest unions – the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) and more than ten years as a senior member of the ACTU Executive, its governing body. In 2006 Jeff Lawrence participated in an ACTU overseas delegation that developed the union movement’s industrial relations policy alternative to the Howard Government’s WorkChoices laws. On becoming ACTU Secretary, Mr Lawrence has vowed to do everything he can to make sure that all Australians have proper rights in their workplace and that employees are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. Mr Lawrence has qualifications in Arts/Law (Hons) from Sydney University. He was born in 1952 in Newcastle. His father Barry was a panel beater and auto mechanic and his mother Elaine a typist and stenographer. As head of the LHMU, a union with more than 130,000 members in the service, contract, childcare, aged care and health industries, Mr Lawrence’s leadership reversed the decline in membership, achieving modest growth against the wider trend. In 1999, Mr Lawrence participated in the ACTU Unions@work report that has been credited with helping increase union membership by adopting new organising techniques and modernisation strategies for unions. Professor Paul Jarley (Dean of the College of Business, University of Nevada Las Vegas)Paul Jarley is the Dean of the College of Business at University of Nevada Las Vegas. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan. He specializes in the study of government regulation of the employment relationship and labor union activities. His work has been published in journals such as The Academy of Management Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, The Journal of Labor Research, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. In 1997, he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship to conduct comparative research on trade unions in Australia and the United States.PanellistsMichelle Bissett, Industrial Officer, Australian Council of Trade Unions
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