How will Labors new employment laws work?
13 May 2009 The University of Sydney’s Workplace Research Centre and Sydney Law School are holding a national conference that will look at how Australia’s industrial relations landscape will change under the Federal Government’s new Fair Work laws. The 17th Annual Labour Law Conference – The Emerging Framework: Change in Australian Labour Law, will be held this Friday the 15th of May. The conference is designed to make sense of the extensive changes that will occur to Australian labour law this year. This conference brings together Australia’s leading labour law and IR researchers and practitioners to discuss the emerging industrial relations framework and the consistency of the current and proposed developments with previous Australian labour law. The keynote speaker is the recently retired Justice Michael Kirby. Professor Andrew Stewart (University of Adelaide) will provide an overview of the Fair Work legislation and outline the government’s timetable for the new system taking effec
