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Professor Anthony Forsyth
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
College of Business and Law
School / Department:
COBL|Graduate School of Business & Law
Email:
anthony.forsyth@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
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. (2020). Playing Catch-Up but Falling Short: Regulating Work in the Gig Economy in Australia In: King's Law Journal, 31, 287 - 300
- Forsyth, A. (2020). The Identity of the ‘Employer’ in Australian Labour Law: Moving Beyond the Unitary Conception of the Employer In: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 13, 13 - 28
- Forsyth, A. (2020). Ten Years of the Fair Work Act: (More) Testing Times for Australia’s Unions In: Australian Journal of Labour Law, 33, 122 - 138
- Forsyth, A. (2020). COVID-19 and Labour Law: Australia (Consensus Policy Formulation Fraying at the Edges) In: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 13, 1 - 9
- Dagnino, E.,Forsyth, A.,Roiatti, M. (2020). Introduction: The Value of Work and Its Rules Between Innovation and Tradition In: The Value of Work and Its Rules Between Innovation and Tradition, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Forsyth, A. (2019). Regulating Australia’s ‘Gangmasters’ through Labour Hire Licensing In: Federal Law Review, 47, 469 - 493
- 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
- Tomassetti, P.,Forsyth, A. (2019). Different Legal Systems, Same Normative Contents? Collective Bargaining at Apple, Ikea and Tiffany Stores in Australia and Italy In: Australian Journal of Labour Law, 32, 192 - 218
- 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
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Current Supervisions2 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
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)