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Research Papers from the Centre for Future Work.

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Submission to the Closing Loopholes Review

The Centre's submission says closing workplace law loopholes has boosted job security, pay equity, enforcement, and fairness across Australia’s labour

By David Peetz

Restoring public sector capability through investment in public service employees

This briefing paper examines the make-up of the APS and considers recent efforts to improve APS service delivery.

By Lisa Heap

Taking up the right to disconnect?

Unsatisfactory working hours and unpaid overtime: 2024 update

By Fiona Macdonald

Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training Inquiry into the Digital Transformation of Workplaces

AI boosts productivity but risks job quality, privacy, fairness, and wellbeing. Regulations are required to ensure decent, fair work.

By Fiona Macdonald, Lisa Heap

Polling – Right to Disconnect

Two-thirds of Coalition voters back newly legislated protections for employees’ right to disconnect from emails and calls outside of work.

By Fiona Macdonald

Call Me Maybe (Not)

Working overtime and a right to disconnect in Australia

By Eliza Littleton, Lily Raynes

The future of work in journalism

Information industries have lost some 60,000 jobs in Australia in the last 15 years, almost half during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Jim Stanford

Technology, standards and democracy

Submission to the Select Committee on the Impact of Technological Change on the Future of Work and Workers in New

By Dan Nahum, Jim Stanford

The robots are NOT coming

Australia’s economy is now regressing in its use of new technology, with negative implications for productivity, incomes, and job quality.

By Jim Stanford

Working from home: opportunities and risks

With many regular workplaces shut down to ‘flatten the curve’ of COVID-19, millions of Australians are now shifting their work

By Alison Pennington, Jim Stanford

The future of transportation work: special series, WA Transport

A special 6-part series of short articles from WA Transport Magazine: Researchers have identified the transportation industry as one of the

By Jim Stanford, Matt Grudnoff