Significant decision from the Fair Work Commission restricting junior rates and youth wages in key awards. A major win, but still more work to do to advance age equality at work.
www.fwc.gov.au/documents/si...
Join us for a seminar, co-hosted with the Asian Law Centre, on 'A “Grand Strategy for Social Justice and Development”: Blas Ople and Authoritarian Labour Regulation in the Philippines' with Petra Mahy on Tuesday, 31 March 2026 @ 1:00pm.
Registration: events.unimelb.edu.au/ALC/event/51...
Two more Assistant Professor roles being advertised at Warwick Law School.
We're a lovely bunch, if a little feisty.
Glad to be here with you all, Bluesky. This account will be used to share research and events happening at the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law (CELRL) at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. Follow us to stay in touch!
Law friends; if you are using Jurism as a reference manager, and it is causing all sorts of headaches: after some trial and error, my guide to going back to Zotero.
www.academickaizen.com/2026/02/22/s...
Law friends; if you are using Jurism as a reference manager, and it is causing all sorts of headaches: after some trial and error, my guide to going back to Zotero.
www.academickaizen.com/2026/02/22/s...
Employment Appeal Tribunal rules that Great Ormond Street Hospital indirectly discriminated against 80 black and minority ethnic cleaners because of the delay they experienced in obtaining NHS pay and benefits after their services were brought in house in 2021 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Detailed job postings data do not show a dip around the launch of ChatGPT; rate hikes earlier in 2022 are the more likely culprit Job postings volume for junior and senior positions
‘Our analysis of job postings data from the US, UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands shows no clear evidence that AI is behind the slowdown in early-career employment across much of the west’ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @sarahoconnorft.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/7fbc...
The headline 'Employment Appeal Tribunal Allows Challenge to Strict Time Limits in Seasonal Migrant Workers’ Exploitation Claims,' a picture of a woman with a microphone surrounded by other people, and further wording that can be viewed at https://www.ier.org.uk/news/employment-appeal-tribunal-allows-challenge-to-strict-time-limits-in-seasonal-migrant-workers-exploitation-claims/
The EAT has allowed an appeal by Latin American seasonal farm workers to proceed, after it was struck out for missing a tribunal deadline. The workers, supported by @uvwunion.bsky.social , argued it is unjust and irrational to expect undocumented workers in crisis to navigate complex legal systems
UTS is hiring! Great faculty, great city. All teaching areas with particular interest in land law, commercial law, civil procedure, Indigenous legal relations.
recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.j...
Significant detail in the government's #child #poverty strategy: section 1 of the #Equality Act (2010), the socio-economic duty, will be commenced and public authorities will have to consider the impact of their #policies on poverty and #inequality.
Could be transformational?
UWA Law School is hiring! Lvl B is only open to applicants with working rights in #AUS. Applications close 3 December 2025. Start date negotiable. (I encourage #intLaw people to apply! Ping @anzsil.org) #jobs #jobFairy #academia #lecturer #higherEd external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
This is great to see, but should apply to all grounds of discrimination - not just sexual harassment. Regulating just one area is going to create a mess.
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
“most of the studies [conducted] find that the industry- and economy-wide productivity gains that have been promised by AI companies are not happening.”
This is a serious breach of privacy. Yet employee records have limited protection under federal privacy law. We urgently need legal change to better protect employee privacy.
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
I haven't fully read this yet but it contains a wonderful heading: "Maching Yearning for a Better Present"
It gets worse. The Deloitte report suspected of using AI contains a fake quote and erroneous citations to one of the leading cases on Robodebt.
www.afr.com//companies/p...
I've been reading the court docs and it is incredibly upsetting reading. Absolutely awful.
CBA has apologised to 45 affected employees after finding customer service roles were not redundant despite introducing an AI-powered "voice-bot", but the union says the damage is done.
I dug into this in the Alternative Law Journal, and trials of the four day work week are absolutely worth expanding in Australia if we want to boost productivity.
doi.org/10.1177/1037...
If Ted Chiang, a truly superb creative writer (also; a background in compsci), is happy using the gym robot analogy to explain why using chatbots at university is antithetical to the purpose you're paying money and forgoing paid work to be there then I'm fortified in my view it's a good one.
In the 'things that could go wrong with genAI that could have been predicted and yet are still happening' camp... AI facilitates medical sexism/gendered health(non)care
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"An algorithm instructed to ignore race and gender is not unbiased; it silently reproduces existing patterns of discrimination while labeling those patterns as “truth.”"
www.techpolicy.press/the-false-ne...
Excellent thread.
Our firm-level work not only surveyed 1000 UK firms about tech adoption, but also did 12 in-depth case studies of AI and automation, with hundreds of hours of interviews with workers about the impact of these tools on the quality of their work, and on their wellbeing.
The federal government has appointed Australia's first permanent National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People.
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
BREAKING: The EU Commission has released a mandatory template for AI developers to disclose training data. Unlike the Code of Practice, this is not optional. It could have global fallout, as rights holders abroad might use it to sue over copyright.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...
