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The Industrial Relations Society of Queensland is pleased to announce its first webinar of 2024 taking place on Thursday, 21 March 2024 at 1pm.
Join your colleagues over lunch and hear about how enterprise bargaining can be leveraged to support diverse workers. Hear from colleagues from the National Tertiary Education Union about how they secured leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment provisions and more using collective bargaining as a mechanism to improve working conditions while striving to reduce inequality in Australian universities. Please read and share.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Sharlene Leroy-Dyer
Senior Lecturer
University of Queensland
Dr Sharlene Leroy-Dyer is a Saltwater woman, with family ties to the Dharug, Awabakal, Garigal and Wiradyuri nations. Sharlene was the first Aboriginal academic to gain a PHD from the University of Newcastle Business School. She is a Senior Lecturer in employment relations and the inaugural Director of the UQ Business School Indigenous Business Hub. Sharlene’s current research areas include Closing the Gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage in Education and Employment, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander labour history, and Aboriginal involvement in the trade union movement.
Sharlene is the Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Policy Committee of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and has served for over 15 years as an elected officer in various positions at a Branch, Division and National level. Sharlene is also the Deputy Chair of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee.
As an Aboriginal activist and unionist, Sharlene is passionate about improving the educational and employment outcomes for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Anthony Hack
Industrial Officer
National Tertiary Education Union
Anthony Hack is a Jaadwa man of the Wotjobaluk Nation. He is an Industrial Officer with the Queensland Division of the National Tertiary Education Union. Anthony has worked in the union movement for the past 13 years in various roles, including some time with other unions such as the CPSU, MEAA, ACTU and CFMEU.
This session is complimentary for IRSQ members and members of State and Territory IR Societies.
Non-members, attendance is $40.00.
Registrations close Wednesday, 20 March 2024.
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Unwind and Unplug:
Understanding Australia's New Right to Disconnect
ALERASA invite you to attend their online and in person seminar
Australia's new right to disconnect is set to profoundly alter work dynamics in our constantly connected society. Dr Gabrielle Golding will draw upon her academic research to examine the right from an Australian standpoint, drawing comparisons with international jurisdictions that have analogous rights. She will delve into Australia's recent legislative advancement, highlighting its necessity for employers and employees alike. Practical measures will be explored, so as to enable the right to be effectively upheld in Australian workplaces when it commences operation on 1 July 2024.
Dr Gabrielle Golding is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The University of Adelaide whose research focuses on the intersection between employment and contract law. Her latest research includes her 2023 monograph, ‘Shaping Contracts for Work’ (Oxford University Press), as well as publications concerning menstrual leave and the right to disconnect from work. She is a regular media commentator on topical employment law matters, having been interviewed by the BBC, ABC, SBS, Guardian, and Australian Financial Review, as well as commissioned to write for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, and The Monthly.
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IRS Newcastle Branch
Finnegan Rudd Memorial Luncheon
When: Friday 24 May 2024, 12pm-3pm
Where: Noah's on the Beach, Newcastle
Featuring Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth as their keynote speaker
We are committed to diversity and inclusion.
We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the Australian land.
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