On Monday 8 May 2023, the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law (CELRL) hosted a seminar on Tackling Insecure Work: Assessing the Albanese Government's Reform Agenda presented by Professor Andrew Stewart (John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide).
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.
Listen to Professor Andrew Stewart as he lays out the choices and challenges for the government as it seeks to deliver on its election commitment, and identifies what may be missing from the current reform agenda.