Australian employment lawyer Josh Bornstein’s new book, Working for the Brand

Lawyer Josh Bornstein 's new book, Working for the Brand , is concerned with employer encroachment on the political speech of employees.

Bornstein addresses the distinct ways in which these tensions play out in the contexts of journalism and academia, as well as discussing consensual sexual relations at work and the phenomenon of “ethics-washing”.

Scott McIntyre lost his livelihood, his family, and for a period, even his liberty.

Scott Bornstein’s solution to the problem of corporate overreach into employees’ lives is unions.

He laments the fall in union membership and appears to see unionising as the only way for employees to push back and negotiate contracts that strike a better balance in respecting a personal/professional distinction.

Rupert Murdoch owns News Corp , News Corp publishes The Australian , and funds Hedley Thomas’s investigative journalism, which has led to the reopening of cold cases involving murdered women, and the exposure of practices in a Queensland DNA lab that call decades of DNA testing (including of rape kits) into question.

When can the company direct its employee to say things she does not believe, in her capacity astheir representative, and when does that cross the line into forcing her to engage in compelled speech?.