This comprehensive review, which considered the views of workers, unions and employers, sets a clear roadmap to modernise the scheme, ensuring it reflects the realities of contemporary work, improves ...

Industry segregation accounts for around a quarter of the gender pay gap and limits Australia’s workforce participation, particularly in sectors with skills shortages.

The Closing Loopholes reforms of 2023 and 2024 brought in Same Job Same Pay for labour-hire workers, world-first rights for gig workers, and better protections for casual workers, among a range of ...

Australian Unions welcome the Albanese Government’s announcement of a National AI Plan containing clear recognition of the need to put working people’s rights, wages, conditions, and jobs at the ...

For the first time in Australia, the Fair Work Commission today ordered Chemist Warehouse to negotiate a multi-employer agreement with its workforce, the first employer in the retail pharmacy sector ...

Today’s national accounts show that GDP per hour worked was 0.8% higher than a year ago, the strongest annual growth in a year. Workers’ share of GDP stayed steady at 49% in September, with the good ...

Unions are concerned that APRA and ASIC’s failures to prevent the First Guardian and Shield collapses could cost working people’s superannuation savings through an increase in mandatory levies paid by ...

Today’s Labour force figures show an overall improvement in the labour market, with the unemployment rate dropping to 4.3%. The rate of under-employment also fell to 5.7% in October. ABS monthly ...

Working women in Australia are seeing the gender pay gap narrow thanks to new work rights, pay rises in undervalued sectors, and strong increases in award and collective agreement wages.

The ACTU is calling for a ‘fair go in the digital age’ following today’s report that one in three Australian workers are at risk of job loss by 2030 from the introduction of AI by big corporate ...

Australians would benefit from a shorter working week – including a four-day model – under a proposal that unions will take to next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable. The ACTU will argue that workers ...

Australian Unions will seek tougher regulations to guide the future roll-out of Artificial Intelligence in workplaces. Unions will pursue a pro-job pro-worker agenda in the adoption of AI to ensure ...