Adriana Orifici

Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation Adriana.Orifici@monash.edu

Biography

Adriana’s PhD research examines the interface between workplace investigations and public regulation and uses doctrinal and empirical research methods. From 2013 to 2016, she was engaged by the Melbourne Law School as a Research Fellow on an ARC Discovery Project entitled 'Reshaping Employment Discrimination Law: Towards Substantive Equality at Work?', which considered the effect of the general protections provisions under the Fair Work Act 2009, and the interaction of the overall system of employment discrimination laws in providing legal redress for discriminatory harms at work in Australia.

articles

Paper with the heading 'Pregnancy and maternity discrimination' on a desk with a judge's gavel

Employees should expect more from the law when they’re pregnant

A new study underlines the need for regulatory reform to address the dismissal of women workers during pregnancy, including on the basis of redundancy.

Business

How to work flexibly from home, and protect fairness

A new study is aiming to better understand what people need to continue to work flexibly from home, and protect fairness.

Business