Industrial relations
Working paper
Probing the effects of the Australian system of minimum wages on the gender wage gap
The complex system of occupation and industry-specific minimum wages has the potential to close the gender wage gap by ensuring equal minimum pay for equal jobs, but it also has the potential to widen it by discriminating against jobs more commonly held by women.
Report
Working time patterns for sustainable work
Working time is a recurrent topic of study because the nature of work, its content, the conditions under which it is performed and the labour market itself keep changing. This report provides an overview of the recent evolution of working time duration and organisation in the EU and highlights the most important trends and differences...
Report
Independent review into sex discrimination and sexual harassment, including predatory behaviour, in Victoria Police: Phase 2 audit
In this report, the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission audits the extent of implementation of the phase 1 recommendations and provides further guidance to support the next stage of implementation
Report
People matter for local government
This study, from the University of Technology Sydney Centre for Local Government, examines employee perceptions of council workplaces in NSW. Approximately 1,500 local government employees responded to the survey in 2016 and 2017.
Working paper
Labour platforms and gig work: the failure to regulate
Since 2012, the platform economy has received much academic, popular, and regulatory attention, reflecting its extraordinary rate of growth. This paper provides a conceptual and theoretical overview of rapidly growing labor platforms, focusing on how they represent both continuity and change in the world of work and its regulation. We first lay out the logic...