Stephane Le Queux

Dr. Stéphane Le Queux (PhD Industrial Relations, M.Sc. Human Productivity, B. Com) is Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, College of Business, Law and Governance. Research Fellow, Cairns Institute and CITBA (JCU Australia), Sustainability Research Cluster (JCU Singapore), MPOWER (Massey University, NZ), Work Research Institute (Auckland University of Technology, NZ), CRIMT (Montreal University, Laval University & HEC Montreal, Canada), Faculty Associate Global Labour Research Centre (York University, Canada), CASE CNRS/IRN ASEAN, Scientific Correspondent (Australia, NZ and Asia-Pacific) IRES (France).

I have reached 30-year of academic career to date (1995-2025), 15 of which have been spent at JCU (2010-2025). My engagement focuses on institutional partnership in the French Pacific and my primary contribution in Research and Teaching is in the disciplinary area of Industrial Relations (IR) (including Service: JCC; NTEU). I have over 100 publications listed on Google Scholar (> 550 citations; > 12500 reads on Research Gate) with 60+ research outputs listed on Research Online since commencing employment at JCU (several internal and external communications excluded). My scholarship in the discipline of IR includes a wide range of contributions, spanning from my early career in Canada and Europe and extending to my academic employment in Australia. Topics represented include: Workplace Restructuring, Social Transformations and Trade Union Identities in Canada; the Europeanisation of Collective Bargaining; Social Movement Unionism in France; Protest Movements for Social Justice and International Labour; Contention over Decolonisation and Reconciliation in New Caledonia; Economic Restructuring and Sustainable Development in Polynesia; Human Capital and Economic Governance in Singapore; Labour Reforms and Labour Activism in Vietnam. A core theme of my work has been covering Australian IR from the late 1990s, the Workplace Relations Act, WorkChoices, through to the Fair Work Act, from the pandemic to recent Labor’s climate change policy. Prior to my contribution, there was no existing corpus of literature on Australian IR in French. From 2000 onwards, I have addressed the academic deficit primarily as a scientific correspondent for the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES, Paris), which identified me as the leading French-speaking expert of Australian IR. The Department of Industrial Relations of Laval University (Québec) awarded me a visiting Professorship in recognition of this scholarship in 2018. My contribution to international Labour studies led me to become Faculty Associate to the Global Labour Research Centre (York University, Canada), Fall 2024. My research work towards South-East Asia, including a co-edited book in 2017, led the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) to appoint me as Australian Research Partner, 2023 onwards. In collaboration with CNRS colleagues, I am now finalizing a book on Labour Regimes in SEA (to be published early 2026, Palgrave Singapore). I was appointed at JCU to design and deliver our curriculum in IR. I tailored this curriculum at and for JCU including topical (NQ/FNQ regional employment; QLD Labour history and Aboriginal labour) and emerging (Digitalisation; Challenges of transitioning to net-zero) issues. I organized the 2023 annual national conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and NZ (AIRAANZ) at JCU. It was the first time the conference was hosted by a NQ/FNQ institution and afforded the opportunity to showcase regional employment issues as well as engaging regional business, community and Indigenous voices.