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Prof

John Howe

Director - Melbourne School Of Government
Melbourne School of Government
Labour Law
Job Creation
Labour Market Regulation
law
social sciences
business & economics
industrial relations & labor
enforcement
government & law
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Prof

John Howe

 
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Law
 
Primary Interest
Labour Law and Policy
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Projects

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FORMAL AND INFORMAL REGULATION OF LABOUR DISPUTES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

This project aims to investigate the complex regulation of labour disputes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Effective rules and in..

2019 - 2022
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Assessing the Impact of FWO Administrative Sanctions

2021 - 2021
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New Initiatives in Enforcing Employment Standards: Assessing the Effectiveness of Federal Government Compliance Strategies

The well-being of more than eight million Australian employees is underpinned by statutory workplace entitlements. For the large majority of..

2009 - 2016
Completed
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New Initiatives in Enforcing Employment Standards: Assessing the Effectiveness of Federal Government Compliance Strategies

The well-being of more than eight million Australian employees is underpinned by statutory workplace entitlements. For the large majority of..

2009 - 2016
Completed
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'Nothing Can Be Created Out of Nothing': Workers, Their Know-How and the Employment Relationships that Support Them

The importance of innovation, either in the form of intellectual property or know-how, to the Australian economy cannot be over-stated. Unli..

2009 - 2014
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Two literature reviews on workplace compliance

2014 - 2014
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STUDY OF THE OPERATION OF PART 2-4 OF THE FAIR WORK ACT 2009 (CTH), 2009-2012

2011 - 2012
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SHAM CONTRACTING IN THE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2011 - 2011
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CURRENT INITIATIVES TO ENCOURAGE FAIR AND COOPERATIVE WORKPLACE PRACTICES

2008 - 2008
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LABOUR LAW IN AN ERA OF 'SELF-REGULATION' - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006

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Research Contracts

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Mapping Wage Theft with Data Science

Timothy Kariotis, John Howe

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

Wage theft is almost 'normal' in some industries, but hard to detect. Predictive algorithms can help regulators and give workers a..

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State Extraterritorial Regulation and Decent Work in the Asia Pacific

John Howe, Ingrid Landau

Book Chapter  |  2019

It is widely accepted that the State has principal responsibility for establishing and maintaining regulatory frameworks for the e..

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What is Actually Regulating Work? A Study of Restaurants in Indonesia and Australia

Petra Mahy, Richard Mitchell, John Howe, Maria Azzurra TRANFAGLIA

Book Chapter  |  2019

Much of the discussion of informal work in recent years has been couched in terms of the ‘failure’ of formal labour law to regula..

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Ownership of New Knowledge Created in a Contracted Relationship

Chris Dent, John Howe

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journal of Labour Law

The creation of new knowledge and innovation arises as a matter of course in many contracted relationships, with ownership rights ..

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Emerging Business Models and the Evolving Regulatory Response: Perspectives from Australia and Beyond

Tess Hardy, Richard Johnstone, John Howe

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journal of Labour Law

This Special Issue contains a selection of articles presented at a workshop, ‘Emerging Business Models and the Evolving Regulatory..

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Global Perspectives on Wage Stagnation

John Howe, Stephen Kinsella

Book Chapter  |  2018

Why is it happening? Why does it matter? And what should we do about it?Written in non-technical terms for a general audience, the..

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The Enforcement of Employment Standards in Australia: Successes and Challenges in Aged Care

Sara Charlesworth, John Howe

Journal article  |  2018  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LABOUR LAW AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

The enforcement of minimum labour standards in Australia has undergone a significant transformation over the last decade with the ..

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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?

Anthony Forsyth, John Howe, Peter Gahan, Ingrid Landau

Journal article  |  2017  |  INDUSTRIAL LAW JOURNAL

The optimal legal and institutional framework for facilitating workers' access to collective bargaining is a central issue for lab..

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The Evolving Project of Labour Law Foundations, Development and Future Research Directions

John Howe, Anna Chapman, Ingrid Landau

Book  |  2017

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Labour regulation now and in the future: Current trends and emerging themes

John Howe

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

This article examines recent scholarship by labour lawyers and industrial relations scholars concerning the regulation of labour m..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Justice and the Law
Commercial Law
Management and Productivity
Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Law in Context
Legal Systems
Other Law and Legal Studies
Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
Work and Labour Market

News

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Mapping wage theft with data science

Timothy Kariotis, John Howe

What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of ‘wage theft’. Wage theft is the..

February 8, 2021
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How social procurement can revive Victoria’s economy

Hannah Irving, John Howe

Australia is experiencing its first recession since the early 1990s. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has recorded Australia’s unemployme..

October 14, 2020
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Working hard to make work fairer

John Howe, Tess Hardy, Sean Cooney

Imagine receiving a pay check that’s less than half the minimum wage, or doing a full year of unpaid work. Maybe you’re too scared to compla..

May 24, 2019
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What does strong political leadership in Australia look like?

Glyn Davis, John Howe, Nicholas Reece, Marcia Langton, Judith Brett, Megan Davis

It began with a chat over coffee in Carlton and culminated in a phone call 12 months ago that might be the catalyst for a new national conve..

December 5, 2017
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Credentials

Positions

Director - Melbourne School Of Government

Melbourne School of Government

Member

Regulating for Decent Work Network

Member

Industrial Relations Society of Victoria

Member

The Australia Institute

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Laws

Temple University

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws

Monash University

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International Linkages

New York University

United States