PUBLIC LECTURE: Fair Work Commission Education Series Lecture

The Industrial Relations Society of WA, in conjunction with the UWA Business School, is pleased to support the Fair Work Commission Education Series Lecture in Perth.

The FWC Lecture Series features presentations on a range of workplace relations topics by local and international experts.  Lectures are taking place around Australia.  

The lecture is being given in conjunction with the Fair Work Commission’s program of mock hearings. These mock hearings are ideal for practitioners and industrial officers, as well as students, new graduates, and anyone interested in workplace relations. The mock hearings are presided over by Members of the Commission, with the merits of the mock cases argued by leading workplace relations practitioners. The ‘hearing’ in Perth will be on Tuesday 12 August.

Russell Lansbury worked with British Airways in the UK and then has held a number of academic positions in universities within Australia and elsewhere. He was Professor of industrial relations at the University of Sydney from 1987-2009 and was appointed Professor Emeritus in 2009.

He was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University and the Sloan School of Management at MIT, with other visiting appointments at the Swedish Centre for Worklife Research and the ILO. He has received fellowships from the French, German, Danish, Finnish and Swedish governments. He was made a General Member of the Order of Australia in 2009.

His major research contributions have been in the areas of international and comparative employment and industrial relations. His current research includes studies of the effects of management strategies of multinational enterprises on employment relations and labour practices, particularly in the auto industry.

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