STAFF PROFILE
Professor Anthony Forsyth
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
Business
School / Department:
Graduate School of Business and Law
Phone:
+61 3 9925 0962
Email:
anthony.forsyth@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research Interests
- Employment law
- Workplace relations law
- Collective bargaining, union recognition and good faith bargaining
- Workplace dispute resolution and dispute prevention
- Comparative labour law
- Workplace bullying
- Workplace privacy/social media
Professor Forsyth is available to undertake commissioned research in these research areas (see ‘Commissioned Research’ section below).
Commissioned Research
- 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)
- Anthony Forsyth, Peter Gahan, John Howe and Ingrid Landau, Fair Work Australia’s Influence in the Enterprise Bargaining Process: Summary of Preliminary Data Analysis, Fair Work Australia Research Partnership Project, Interim Report, 31 July 2012, 37 pages
- Alex Bukarica and Andrew Dallas, with Anthony Forsyth (consulting editor), Promoting Good Faith Bargaining under Australia’s Fair Work Act: Lessons from the Collective Bargaining Experience in Canada and New Zealand, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (Mining and Energy Division), Sydney, 2010
- Anthony Forsyth, Promoting Cooperative Workplace Relations in the New ‘Fair Work’ System, Policy Discussion Paper for the Business Council of Australia, June 2009; released as BCA, Embedding Workplace Collaboration: Preventing Disputes, 9 August 2009
- Anthony Forsyth and John Howe, Current Initiatives to Encourage Fair and Cooperative Workplace Practices: An International Survey, Report for the Victorian Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate/Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, June 2008
- Anthony Forsyth, Protection Against Economic Dismissals: How Does Australian Law Compare with ILO Standards and Five Other OECD Countries?, Supplementary Report for the Victorian Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate/Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, November 2007
- Anthony Forsyth, Freedom to Fire: Economic Dismissals under Work Choices, Report for the Victorian Office of the Workplace Rights Advocate/Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, August 2007
- Anthony Forsyth, Peter Gahan, Marco Michelotti, Andreas Pekarek and Renee Saibi, Collective Bargaining and Union Recognition Rights: Policy Issues for Australia, Research Report for the Australian Institute of Employment Rights, April 2006
- Anthony Forsyth, The Decline of Social Dialogue in the Australian Public Service, Monograph for the Government and Labour Law and Administration Department (GLLAD), International Labour Office, Geneva, January 2001
- 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. (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
- Forsyth, A.,Stewart, A. (2016). Swimming against the tide: New challenges for unions under Australian labour law In: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 38, 99 - 121
- Forsyth, A. (2016). Australia In: Resolving Individual Labour Disputes: A Comparative Overview, International Labour Office, Geneva
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.