Stephen Clibborn

Associate Professor, University of Sydney. Researching employment relations & regulation, (non)compliance, labour migration.

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

Minimum wage used to be sacrosanct - if an employer couldn’t pay, it shouldn’t be in business

Now business lobby argues against more enforcement of min. wages, lest employers go out of business

We explain the change in who the min. wage protects – from worker to business owner

[Frances Flanagan @FNFlanagan]

NEW ARTICLE:

‘Non-enforcement of Minimum Wage laws and the Shifting Protective Subject of Labour Law in Australia: A New Province for Law and Order?’

I’m very pleased to publish this with @StephenClibborn in @SydneyLawReview

Advance access: https://t.co/PBl37abdoM

[Prof Rae Cooper @Raecooper1]

Big day launching our new @ANROWS report on sexual harassment in retail workplaces. Big 🙏 to the retail specialist managers, workers & team leaders who participated in the research & to @retailaustralia @SDAunion for your collaboration. Nice @theprojecttv story here👇🏽

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

I first heard the term ‘wage theft’ when I worked in the United States in the early 2000s. Framing of unlawful underpayment as ‘wage theft’ really took off in Australia after 2015. Excellent article @jcgmurphy @katielovelock @emilyrosefoley

[Jim Murphy @jcgmurphy]

We looked especially at the framing of the issue. We were surprised to find the term "wage theft" really was not used at all before @StephenClibborn used it to describe the 7Eleven scandal in 2015...

[Jim Murphy @jcgmurphy]

Have spent a few years researching wage theft advocacy with @emilyrosefoley & @katielovelock. Our article about it in @AusJPolSci is out now and open access: https://t.co/xIz7tdGv1Y

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

Some insights from my recent empirical research into the employer perspective on wage law non-compliance (as well as my previous research with ⁦@ChrisFWright⁩ ) in this ABC RN report, The Cost of Wage Theft https://t.co/pWIJv4AIT6

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

NEW ARTICLE

I’m pleased to share @ChrisFWright ‘s and my new article, examining flawed employer-tied TSS visa and proposing internationally-unique mobility visa as alternative, to better protect workers and address labour market needs more effectively

https://t.co/rqNxkcl7Z5

[Matt Withers @MattWithers_]

The PLMS is flawed. If Australia is serious about treating the Pacific with dignity, this must extend to the ways in which we gather/share/value knowledge. If @dfat wants credible research, it should fund a plurality of studies + centre Pacific and Timorese voices. @PatConroy1

[The New Daily @TheNewDailyAu]

How experts say the Albanese government’s new ‘Skills in Demand visa’ will help address major flaws in Australia’s migration system.

https://t.co/5l0LsqACEX

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

Lots of talk from the Australian government today about closing immigration back doors and side doors

Here’s some detail from ⁦@ChrisFWright⁩ and me on problems with those doors (from 2018): https://t.co/CiyNNbd0SU

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

Pleased the new ‘Skills in Demand visa’ (encouraging, evidence-based migration policy, addressing major flaws in TSS visa that contribute to exploitation) draws on ⁦@ChrisFWright⁩ and my ‘mobility visa’ submission to the Parkinson Review

See also: https://t.co/cm72T1J3Be

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

We’ll that’s a pleasant surprise and an honour. Thanks @TheELRR - ping co-author @ChrisFWright

[The Economic and Labour Relations Review @TheELRR]

Our December article of the month is the inaugural winner of the Nevile-Plowman Prize for Best Paper, Chris Wright and Stephen Clibborn’s ‘A guest-worker state? The declining power and agency of migrant labour in Australia’.

Free to access til 2024.

https://t.co/otTeoCftBM

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

Great to see our article (with @FNFlanagan) in hard copy in @SydneyLawReview - also: https://t.co/4mpVCYOYMN

‘Non-Enforcement of Minimum Wage Laws and the Shifting Protective Subject of Labour Law in Australia: A New Province for Law and Order?’

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[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

Minimum wage used to be sacrosanct - if an employer couldn’t pay, it shouldn’t be in business

Now business lobby argues against more enforcement of min. wages, lest employers go out of business

We explain the change in who the min. wage protects – from worker to business owner

[Frances Flanagan @FNFlanagan]

New article:

Just Cessation: How Might the Climate Imperative to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Extraction Reshape the Concept of Just Transition?

https://t.co/KFm7Nw954w

Thanks to the eds of the Int'l J of Comparative Labour Law and Ind Relations SI on the #Labour #Environment nexus

[Frances Flanagan @FNFlanagan]

NEW ARTICLE:

‘Non-enforcement of Minimum Wage laws and the Shifting Protective Subject of Labour Law in Australia: A New Province for Law and Order?’

I’m very pleased to publish this with @StephenClibborn in @SydneyLawReview

Advance access: https://t.co/PBl37abdoM

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

We’re looking forward to hosting Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations @Tony_Burke at @sydney_business when he delivers the 30th Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture on 24 August.

All welcome - register here: https://t.co/5p1RwoaHga

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

Some thoughts from me on the question, “Is it really worth joining my union?�� https://t.co/SvcpxsIus6

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

‘Collective power of workers can help on wage theft’ in today’s paper @smh and @theage

[Stephen Clibborn @StephenClibborn]

As govt makes policies to address wage theft, it should aim to increase employer compliance (sounds obvious, but recent policies haven’t)

Including unions in co-enforcement of wage laws will help.

My new opinion piece @smh⁩
⁦@sydney_business⁩ https://t.co/MhuteDWnFS