“The Murrumbidgee Council in south-west NSW has voted to implement a four-day working week trial for most staff starting in January. It is an Australian first for a local council” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Staff get 52 long weekends a year as council trials four-day work week

In an Australian first, Murrumbidgee Council staff will get long weekends every week from next year when a four-day working week trial begins.

abc.net.au

I wrote a short piece on 'Debating Social Rights with Conor Gearty' for a special issue of the European Human Rights Law Review that will honour Conor Gearty (1957-2025). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The ARC's new grant scheme table, in case you don't want to read through the details (which are here: www.arc.gov.au/system/files...)

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).

Due to several retirements, UWA #Law School is recruiting multiple positions from Lvls B-D (lecturer, snr lecturer, Assoc Prof). See ad for topic areas BUT we could also really use a feminist/gender & the law person!! #job #jobFairy #academia #Perth #AUS external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

📣 New publication! We've just released our anticipated report on #HeatExposure at work 🥵 'Climate change and workers’ health: Protecting workers against heat and other climate-related hazards' by Marouane Laabbas-el-Guennouni (ETUI) and Andreas Flouris (University of Thessaly)

Until we have dedicated and effective workplace surveillance laws, I argue we might challenge workplace surveillance as a form of discrimination. Just published open access in the Alternative Law Journal: doi.org/10.1177/1037...

Alysia Blackham@alysiablackham.bsky.social · 2w ago

These laws cannot come soon enough in my view. www.premier.vic.gov.au/big-tech-mus...

These laws cannot come soon enough in my view. www.premier.vic.gov.au/big-tech-mus...

Big Tech Must Stop Spying On Workers At Work

premier.vic.gov.au

@BerkeleyLaw is hiring a tenured professor in AI, Law and Society, as part of an interdisciplinary campus-wide cluster. Please spread the word, and consider applying! Deadline is September 4. Happy to field questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05397

Professor - Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, and Society - School of Law

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

ILO agrees Convention 193, Concerning Decent Work in the Platform Economy, described as ‘broad enough to ensure access to rights regardless of classification’ and addressing many key issues eg algorithmic management, safety & health, and collective bargaining www.solidaritycenter.org/platform-wor...

Solidarity Center - Platform Workers No Longer Invisible: Historic New Global Standard Ensures Workplace Rights

Dancing and clapping to music from speakers in the giant conference room, platform workers celebrated the creation of an unprecedented global standard that improves their working conditions and…

solidaritycenter.org

Across countries and platforms, AI’s outsourcing maze depends on data workers under surveillance-heavy conditions, with accountability fragmented across multiple firms, reports Marché Arends.

How AI’s Labor Supply Chains Fail Workers

Kenyan data workers describe surveillance-heavy shifts and sudden layoffs, exposing the hidden supply chain behind AI development, reports Marché Arends.

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!!! "The International Labour Organization ‌on Friday agreed to adopt the first binding employment standards for platforms ​offering services such as ​ride-hailing, food delivery and e-commerce." www.reuters.com/business/wor...

UN labour organization sets first binding employment standards for gig workers

The International Labour Organization ‌on Friday agreed to adopt the first binding employment standards for platforms ​offering services such as ​ride-hailing, food delivery and e-commerce.

reuters.com

Report Shows ‘Bossware’ Is Spying on Workers and Sharing Their Data. Verge article: “Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you” Workplace monitoring tools are apparently sharing information even further than workers may realize. www.theverge.com/policy/93529...

Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you

Workers are often even more vulnerable than consumers, the researchers say.

theverge.com

Just published in Pursuit: 'Over 45 and looking for a job? AI thinks you might be too old' I report on new research showing age bias in ChatGPT. With AI increasingly used at work, we urgently need to amend discrimination laws to require proactive change. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/ove...

Over 45 and looking for a job? AI thinks you might be too old

ChatGPT prefers younger employees for our “fast-moving” world, and it may be contributing to already-high levels of ageism in recruitment, finds new research from the University of Melbourne

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

Join us for a webinar on 'The Adjudication of Collective Rights: The Right to Strike before the International Court of Justice', with Jeffrey Vogt (Solidarity Center & ILAW Network) and Prof Shae McCrystal (Sydney). Tuesday 16 June 2026 @ 12.00pm AEST, online events.unimelb.edu.au/CELRL/event/...

The Adjudication of Collective Rights: The Right to Strike before the International Court of Justice

Please join us for a Labour Law Webinar on ‘The Adjudication of Collective Rights: The Right to Strike before the International Court of Justice�...

events.unimelb.edu.au

New, from me, in the Industrial Law Journal: can law adequately respond to the discrimination risks posed by AI and LLMs at work? I argue new technologies are already revealing the cracks in discrimination law, and call for targeted reform. doi.org/10.1093/indl...

Artificial Intelligence and Equality at Work: Evaluating the Adequacy of The UK Legal Framework For Responding to The Discrimination Risks of New Technologies

Abstract. Artificial intelligence (AI) and automated tools are likely to replicate and escalate discrimination and bias in society, including in the workpl

doi.org

For those following Tickle v Giggle - decisive win for Ms Tickle.

Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lost the appeal and now has to pay damages over public commentary around the appeal. www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...

Delighted to see this book published! It captures contributions from an important project on empirical evidence in judging. My chapter explores the use of empirical evidence in equality law-making, focusing on the attempted justification of age discrimination in pension reform in McCloud-Sargeant.

Edward Elgar Publishing@elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Judicial Policy Making, Empirical Data and Scientific Evidence: Can Courts Manage the Twenty-First Century? 📘 ⚖️ ✒️ Edited by Rob Van Gestel and Edward Rubin 🆓 For the eBook, and free first chapter, visit: doi.org/10.4337/9781... ℹ️ For more info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Significant decision from the Fair Work Commission restricting junior rates and youth wages in key awards. A major win, but still more work to do to advance age equality at work. www.fwc.gov.au/documents/si...

Join us for a seminar, co-hosted with the Asian Law Centre, on 'A “Grand Strategy for Social Justice and Development”: Blas Ople and Authoritarian Labour Regulation in the Philippines' with Petra Mahy on Tuesday, 31 March 2026 @ 1:00pm. Registration: events.unimelb.edu.au/ALC/event/51...

Two more Assistant Professor roles being advertised at Warwick Law School. We're a lovely bunch, if a little feisty.

Glad to be here with you all, Bluesky. This account will be used to share research and events happening at the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law (CELRL) at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. Follow us to stay in touch!

Law friends; if you are using Jurism as a reference manager, and it is causing all sorts of headaches: after some trial and error, my guide to going back to Zotero. www.academickaizen.com/2026/02/22/s...

Law friends; if you are using Jurism as a reference manager, and it is causing all sorts of headaches: after some trial and error, my guide to going back to Zotero. www.academickaizen.com/2026/02/22/s...

Employment Appeal Tribunal rules that Great Ormond Street Hospital indirectly discriminated against 80 black and minority ethnic cleaners because of the delay they experienced in obtaining NHS pay and benefits after their services were brought in house in 2021 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Great Ormond Street hospital cleaners win racial discrimination appeal

Claim by 80 workers that they were subjected to ‘indirect race discrimination’ by wait for NHS pay terms upheld

theguardian.com

‘Our analysis of job postings data from the US, UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands shows no clear evidence that AI is behind the slowdown in early-career employment across much of the west’ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @sarahoconnorft.ft.com www.ft.com/content/7fbc...

The EAT has allowed an appeal by Latin American seasonal farm workers to proceed, after it was struck out for missing a tribunal deadline. The workers, supported by @uvwunion.bsky.social , argued it is unjust and irrational to expect undocumented workers in crisis to navigate complex legal systems

UTS is hiring! Great faculty, great city. All teaching areas with particular interest in land law, commercial law, civil procedure, Indigenous legal relations. recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.j...

Significant detail in the government's #child #poverty strategy: section 1 of the #Equality Act (2010), the socio-economic duty, will be commenced and public authorities will have to consider the impact of their #policies on poverty and #inequality. Could be transformational?

UWA Law School is hiring! Lvl B is only open to applicants with working rights in #AUS. Applications close 3 December 2025. Start date negotiable. (I encourage #intLaw people to apply! Ping @anzsil.org) #jobs #jobFairy #academia #lecturer #higherEd external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

This is great to see, but should apply to all grounds of discrimination - not just sexual harassment. Regulating just one area is going to create a mess.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 9mo ago

Australian-first bill to ban use of NDAs to silence sexual harassment victims introduced in Victoria