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University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Director of the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, Dr Lain Dare discuss the week in politics.
The Fair Work Commission has announced a rise in the minimum wage of 5.2% or $40 a week, taking it to $812.60 a week or $21.38 an hour
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tony Burke advocates on wages and arts
Michelle Grattan speaks with Tony Burke the minister for employment and workplace relations and minister for the arts, as well as the leader of the House of Representatives.
Low-wage earners are going backwards. Here’s why they deserve an increase in the minimum wage by $1 an hour from July 1.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Chris Wallace, Associate Professor at the University of Canberra.
Both Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison landed themselves onto the sticky paper on Tuesday, as they trudged through this campaign’s penultimate week.
With a monthly minimum wage of 30,000 Naira (US$72), the average Nigerian worker is groaning under the weight of the rising cost of living.
In the face of rising food prices in Nigeria, many salary earners have had to change the quality of foodstuff they buy or opt for cheaper alternatives.
Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, rather than established unions.
Opinion and evidence differ on minimum wage policies, but one thing seems clear – they need to be better integrated within a wider economic support strategy.
Millions of Americans struggle to pay their bills each month, despite earning wages well above the federal poverty line and holding multiple jobs.
Australia’s Fair Work Commission has struck out a legal loophole allowing employers to pay farm workers exploitative piecemeal rates.
Opponents of a new California law that may lift the minimum wage for fast food workers claim it’ll cost jobs. How raising it affects employment is among the most studied issues in all of economics.
Canadian economist David Card won the Nobel Prize in economics for demonstrating that large-scale immigration has no effect on the wages of native-born workers. In doing so, he’s challenged Economics 101.
Before Card, it had been widely accepted that boosting the minimum wage would cost jobs.
Most of the million gardners employed in South Africa earn less than the minimum wage.
People can die when the federal government doesn’t work well with state and local governments – the COVID-19 crisis showed that. But the Biden administration has signaled an openness to collaboration.
If Canada wants to expand its middle class by substantially improving working conditions in sectors like retail, it must fundamentally reform its labour laws to be similar to Sweden’s.
The Fair Work Commission has shown it can still provide important economic leadership.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Associate Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University
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Co-Director, Institute for Economic Justice, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of History, Dartmouth College
