Low-wage earners are going backwards. Here’s why they deserve an increase in the minimum wage by $1 an hour from July 1.
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Lifting wages will be a priority for the Albanese government to ease the cost of living. But the unions and the Greens are likely to push for more changes to tackle problems with the Fair Work system.
The buying power of wages shrank a record 2.7% over the year to March, calling into question assurances about the link between low unemployment and high wage growth.
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has made comprehensive reform of aged care the centrepiece of his budget reply delivered on Thursday night.
For anyone who assumes someone’s professional past will predict their future behaviour, Geoffrey Giudice’s life of public service is an invitation to think again.
This is an important victory for employees and unions, acknowledging the importance of genuine and meaningful consultation. It’s not a victory for mandate opponents.
In democratic societies, truth matters and institutions are expected to be accountable when they stray from it.
If you catch COVID-19 at work in Australia, you do have rights to leave and compensation, depending on your employment status
There are only limited circumstances where workplace vaccine mandates are likely to be found legally justifiable.
Only five of the 56 economists surveyed believed lower immigration would boost wage growth. The rest backed measures to lift productivity and investment and changes that boosted the power of unions.
The Fair Work Commission has shown it can still provide important economic leadership.
The Fair Work Commission’s ruling that delivery rider Diego Franco was an employee of Deliveroo is a major legal win for Australia’s gig workers.
A hike in the minimum wage could jeopardise Australia’s post-COVID recovery, says the Morrison government. That’s an outdated economic idea.
Uber has been forced by the UK courts to treat its British drivers as workers. It will probably require legislative change for Uber’s Australian drivers to be treated as employees.
It’ll be harder for employers to underpay workers, but easier to offer them extra hours without penalty pay.
On Wednesday, the government will introduce industrial relations legislation allowing businesses affected by COVID to be exempt from the Better Off Overall Test (BOOT) in enterprise agreements.
Legislation governing universities varies from one to the other, often leaving their purpose undefined. But it certainly matters when determining an academic’s duties in an unfair dismissal case.
The failure to anticipate the consequence of workers having no paid sick leave is one of the greatest flaws in Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A freeze in the minimum wage would make it easier for stressed employers to hang onto their workers says a bare majority of experts surveyed by the Economic Society and The Conversation.
Our research shows most organisations have adapted well to staff working from home. But there’s a hole in workplace laws we need to address.
Kontributor teratas
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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John Bray Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations and HRM, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
