Tackling Insecure Work: Assessing the Albanese Government's Reform Agenda (May 2023)
Webinar presented by:
Professor Andrew Stewart (John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide)
Monday 8 May 2023
About the event
The Albanese Government was elected in May 2022 on an IR platform that prioritised the need to ‘deliver more secure jobs’. Its first year in office has been one of great activity on the legislative front, including new rules from December 2023 that will limit the use not just of fixed term employment contracts, but many task or project-based contracts as well. But most of the bigger reforms in this area are yet to come, most notably on casual employment, labour hire, and ‘employee-like’ forms of work. In this webinar Professor Andrew Stewart laid out the choices and challenges for the government as it seeks to deliver on its election commitment, and identified what may be missing from the current reform agenda.
About the speaker
Andrew Stewart is the John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide, Adjunct Professor with QUT’s Centre for Decent Work & Industry, and a consultant with the national law firm Piper Alderman. A pre-eminent expert on employment law and workplace relations, and the author of Stewart's Guide to Employment Law, he has decades of experience in advising employers, trade unions and governments at all levels on legal and policy issues. His recent research has focused, among other things, on wage stagnation, digital platform work, internships, apprenticeships and voluntary work.