Remarks: Registration is open for the 2024 ALLA National Conference: Assessing the Impact of Change and Reform in Australian Labour Law, to be held on 8-9 November at the Novotel Geelong, VIC. The conference program includes a keynote plenary session: Assessing the impact of recent workplace law reforms (Secure Jobs Better Pay Act 2022 & […]

Remarks: Conference theme Employing the lens of the life and work of Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979), we investigate the invention of labor law as a distinct field of legal doctrine and scholarship. Invention and reinvention are understood here to be ongoing political and scholarly processes, involving the defense of existing institutions and the development of new […]

Remarks: The project Panoptiwork organises its closing conference at the University of Groningen, on 2 December 2024. The conference looks at the interdisciplinary intersections of labour and digitalisation. It aims to bring together researchers from diverse fields to discuss the multifaceted impact of the digital society in workplaces. This requires addressing questions about the organisation […]

Remarks: WHAT DO WORKERS WANT, TODAY? An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Representation, Industrial Relations and Labour Law Until the last century, trade unions were the main form of employee participation and inclusion in most Western countries. Things seem to be changing today. Unions, and the traditional forms of representation more generally, have been challenged by social […]

Remarks: We invite you to register for a two day, hybrid (Zoom and in-person) workshop contemplating the upcoming review of the CUSMA/USMCA/T-Mec agreement, focusing on the labour provisions and on the rapid-response mechanism. When the renegotiated Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA / USMCA / T-MEC) took effect on July 1, 2020, there were expectations that the […]