Martin O'Brien

Professor Martin O'Brien is a labour economist in the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong. He is the Director of the Sydney Business School MBA program and also Director of the Centre for Human and Social Capital Research. Since obtaining his PhD from the University of Newcastle (Australia) examining older male labour force participation, he has published widely in the areas of older worker employment issues, workforce redundancy, and evaluation of regional employment policies. In the last decade his research has taken more of an employment relations flavour, with a prominent role as expert witness in a number of cases in the Fair Work Commission and NSW Industrial Relations Commission, including penalty rates, family and domestic violence leave, junior rates of pay, part-time and casual employment, and minimum wages.