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Professor Anthony Forsyth
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
Business
School / Department:
Graduate School of Business and Law
Phone:
99250962
Email:
anthony.forsyth@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research Interests
- Employment law
- Workplace relations law
- Comparative labour law
- Collective bargaining and union recognition
- Regulation of trade unions
- Future of unions
- Labour hire
- Wage theft and worker exploitation
- Workplace dispute resolution
Professor Forsyth is available to undertake commissioned research in these research areas (see ‘Commissioned Research’ section below).
Commissioned Research
- Anthony Forsyth and Industrial Relations Victoria, Victorian Inquiry into the Labour Hire Industry and Insecure Work: Final Report, Victorian Government, Melbourne, 31 August 2016, 418 pages
- Anthony Forsyth and Industrial Relations Victoria, Victorian Inquiry into the Labour Hire Industry and Insecure Work: Confidential Interim Report, Victorian Government, Melbourne, April 2016
- Anthony Forsyth and Industrial Relations Victoria, Background Paper for the Victorian Inquiry into the Labour Hire Industry and Insecure Work, Victorian Government, Melbourne, 16 October 2015
- Anthony Forsyth, Review of the Fair Work Commission Panel System: Caseload Allocation in Collective Matters, Interim Report, August 2015; and Final Report, February 2016
- Anthony Forsyth, Australian Report for the International Labour Organization on Performance of Prevention and Resolution Mechanisms and Processes for Individual Labour Disputes, February 2015
- Anthony Forsyth, ILO Fact Sheet – Good Faith Bargaining, External Collaboration Contract for the International Labour Office, Geneva, 2014
- Anthony Forsyth, Peter Gahan, John Howe and Ingrid Landau, Fair Work Australia’s Influence in the Enterprise Bargaining Process, Fair Work Australia Research Partnership Project, Final Report, 30 September 2012, i-xi, 168 pages (published by the Fair Work Commission on 22 February 2013, available at: http://www.fwc.gov.au/index.cfm?pagename=admingmreporting&page=research#research2015)
- Labour Law
- Introduction to Australian Legal System and Legal Methods
- Legal Research Project
- Bachelor of Jurisprudence/Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Monash University
- Graduate Diploma in Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne
- PhD, University of Melbourne
- Forsyth, A. (2019). Regulating Australia�s �Gangmasters� through Labour Hire Licensing In: Federal Law Review, , 1 - 25
- Forsyth, A.,Howe, J. (2019). Reaching Across the Ditch? Similarities and Differences in the Trajectory of Australian and New Zealand Regulation of Collective Labour Relations 1988-2018 In: Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 50, 215 - 231
- Forsyth, A. (2018). ''Restoring the rule of law'' through commercial (dis)incentives: The code for the tendering and performance of building work 2016 In: Sydney Law Review, 40, 93 - 122
- Creighton, B.,Forsyth, A.,McCrystal, S. (2018). Evaluating the Australian Experiment in Enterprise Bargaining In: Collective Bargaining Under the Fair Work Act, The Federation Press, Annadale, Australia
- Forsyth, A.,Ellem, B. (2018). Has the Australian Model Resisted US-Style Anti-Union Organising Campaigns? Case Studies of the Cochlear and ResMed Bargaining Disputes In: Collective Bargaining Under the Fair Work Act, The Federation Press, Annadale, Australia
- Forsyth, A.,Howe, J.,Gahan, P.,Landau, I. (2017). Establishing the right to bargain collectively in Australia and the UK: Are majority support determinations under Australia's Fair Work Act a more effective form of union recognition? In: Industrial Law Journal, 46, 335 - 365
- Pekarek, A.,Landau, I.,Gahan, P.,Forsyth, A.,Howe, J. (2017). Old game, new rules? The dynamics of enterprise bargaining under the Fair Work Act In: Journal of Industrial Relations, 59, 44 - 64
- Forsyth, A. (2017). Industrial legislation in Australia in 2016 In: Journal of Industrial Relations, 59, 323 - 337
- Forsyth, A. (2017). The Victorian Inquiry into Labour Hire and Insecure Work: Addressing Worker Exploitation in Complex Business Structures In: E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, 6, 1 - 33
- Forsyth, A. (2017). Law, politics and ideology: the regulatory response to trade union corruption in Australia In: University of New South Wales Law Journal, 40, 1336 - 1365
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions
Employment law, Workplace relations law, Workplace regulations & policy, Collective bargaining, Workplace dispute resolution, Comparative labour law.
- Trade union training: reshaping the Australian industrial landscape (Administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2018 from (2019 to 2021)