Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
Dr Sarah Kaine lectures in HRM and IR in the UTS Business School. Her research focuses on several broad themes: employee representation, the development and exercise of employee voice, the formal and informal regulation of employment relations and HRM and sustainability. Specifically Sarah is interested in innovation in employment regulation – beyond the bounds of traditional labour law, Corporate Social Responsibility and its link to industrial relations and the role of leadership in promoting sustainability and CSR. Prior to becoming an academic Sarah worked as an industrial relations practitioner and a consultant to not-for-profit organisations.
Working conditions in aged care homes are awful, largely because the work is done by women
Oct 29, 2019 19:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The aged care royal commission is the just the latest in an avalanche of reviews and inquires over three decades that have found the same things: abuse and neglect and, lying behind them, appalling work conditions. Our...
How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy
May 07, 2019 03:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics
Today we kick off a four-part election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read an analysis of Labors living wage policy here. Industrial...
People power is finally making the gig economy fairer
Aug 13, 2018 14:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
New York City legislated this week to require a minimum pay rate for rideshare drivers the result of a two-year campaign by the Independent Drivers Guild. This massive mobilisation of drivers in New York could...
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
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