Addressing Age Discrimination in Employment

Abandoning individual enforcement? Interrogating the enforcement of age discrimination law

Alysia Blackham

2023-02-15

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Discrimination law primarily relies on individual enforcement for addressing discrimi..

Promoting innovation or exacerbating inequality? Laboratory federalism and Australian age discrimination law

Alysia Blackham

2023-01-01

According to laboratory federalism, federal systems can promote governmental innovation and experimentation, while containing the ..

When Law and Data Collide: The Methodological Challenge of Conducting Mixed Methods Research in Law

Alysia Blackham

2022-09-01

A mixed methods research methodology – that integrates both qualitative and quantitative research methods – theoretically offers s..

Reforming Age Discrimination Law Beyond Individual Enforcement

Alysia Blackham

2022-06-27

This book offers a roadmap for the future development of age discrimination law in common law countries to better address workplac..

Addressing Age Discrimination in Employment: a report on the findings of Australian Research Council Project DE170100228

Alysia Blackham

2021-11-01

This project aimed to research the effectiveness of Australian age discrimination laws. While demographic ageing necessitates exte..

Enforcing Rights in Employment Tribunals: Insights from Age Discrimination Claims in a New ‘Dataset’

Alysia Blackham

2021-09-01

The online publication of Employment Tribunal (ET) decisions in England, Wales and Scotland marks a watershed moment, opening up n..

Non-discrimination on the grounds of age

Alysia Blackham

2021-01-01

‘Direct discrimination’ means treating someone less favourably than another person ‘is, has been or would be treated in a comparab..

Positive Equality Duties: The Future of Equality and Transparency?

Alysia Blackham

2021-01-01

Transparency is a radical expectation in the context of equality law. In a system highly dependent on individual en-forcement, the..

Working at the edges of legal protection: Equality law and youth work experience from a comparative perspective

Alysia Blackham

2021-01-01

Equality law has particular significance for those undertaking unpaid work experience. Drawing on comparative legal doctrinal anal..

Intersectional Discrimination in Australia: An Empirical Critique of the Legal Framework

Alysia Blackham, Jeromey Temple

2020-09-01

Australian equality law is still largely dependent on individual enforcement to achieve systemic change. The degree to which discr..

Why Do Employment Age Discrimination Cases Fail? An Analysis of Australian Case Law

Alysia Blackham

2020-03-01

Employment age discrimination cases are notoriously unsuccessful in Australia. While it is arguable that most strong cases are set..

Pensions and the Modern Workforce

Alysia Blackham

2020-01-01

Old age pensions play a fundamental role in ensuring adequacy of income for the elderly into old age. While pensions fulfil a key ..

Interrogating the ‘Dignity’ Argument for Mandatory Retirement: An Undignified Development?

Alysia Blackham

2019-09-01

Human dignity is often cited as a justification and foundation for equality law. However, it is also used in some contexts to just..

Empirical Research and Workplace Discrimination Law

Alysia Blackham

2019-06-07

In Empirical Research and Workplace Discrimination Law, part of the series Comparative Discrimination Law, Alysia Blackham offers ..

Young Workers and Age Discrimination: Tensions and Conflicts

Alysia Blackham

2019-03-01

Young workers occupy a particularly vulnerable position in the contemporary labour market. While this may partly be attributable t..

Age Discrimination Beyond Employment

Alysia Blackham

2019-01-01

Population ageing is reshaping the demographic make-up of countries across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developm..

Re-Systematising Labour Law: Beyond Traditional Systems Theory and Reflexive Law?

Alysia Blackham

2019-01-01

Reflexive law has an enduring place in the theory of labour law, having featured prominently in the work of leading labour law sch..

Under Wraps: Secrecy, Confidentiality and the Enforcement of Equality Law in Australia and the United Kingdom

Dominique Allen, Alysia Blackham

2019-01-01

Confidentiality has become an integral part of the individual enforcement model for equality law in Australia and the United Kingd..

Using Empirical Research to Advance Workplace Equality Law Scholarship: Benefits, Pitfalls and Challenges

Dominique Allen, Alysia Blackham

2018-07-03

Legal scholars are increasingly attuned to the substantial benefits that can be derived from empirical and socio-legal scholarship..

A Compromised Balance? A Comparative Examination of Exceptions to Age Discrimination Law in Australia and the UK

Alysia Blackham

2018-01-01

Exceptions to discrimination law reveal both tensions and telling compromises regarding the boundaries of the equality principle. ..

Recent Developments in Australian and New Zealand Age Discrimination Law: A Comparative Perspective

Alysia Blackham

2018-01-01

As individuals live longer, healthier lives, both Australia and New Zealand are experiencing a dramatic demographic shift. In an e..

Defining 'Discrimination' in UK and Australian Age Discrimination Law

Alysia Blackham

2017-01-01

Population ageing is a challenge facing governments across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In a bid to..

Employment discrimination law in the United Kingdom: Achieving substantive equality at work?

A Blackham

2017-01-01