The ACTU has proposed Australia adopt a “living wage”. This might improve the incomes of some people, but it wouldn’t solve “working poverty”.
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A Senate committee has made the right decision by rejecting the Fair Work Commissions recommendations to slash penalty rates - here’s why.
Austraila’s minimum wages now operate in relative isolation. Until the 1990s they were part of an inter-connected system.
The Fair Work Commission said reductions in rates were more significant in retail and pharmacy than in hospitality and fast food.
In a recorded phone call to voters, Labor leader Bill Shorten said that “cuts to penalty rates will rip off 700,000 workers”. Is that true?
Q&A between the University of Melbourne’s Joshua Healy and The McKell Institute’s Edward Cavanough about methodologies for estimating the impact of the proposed Sunday penalty rate cuts.
There are economic arguments to be had for ensuring an appropriate rate of growth of real wages.
The insistence by the Fair Work Commission that the government make a submission on penalty rates was not about their position, but a call on the government to take some of the responsibility itself.
The government has a major headache on its hands with the proposed cuts to penalty rates, which could haunt it all the way to the next election.
Malcolm Turnbull will overfly Western Australia twice next week, when he makes a brief dash to Indonesia to attend a conference of Indian Ocean Rim leaders.
Why do so many Australian TV dramas depict the lives of professionals when there is plenty of real drama for those living from one paycheck to the next?
On some days it’s best not to venture out. For Malcolm Turnbull, Monday was such a day. There was no way a visit to Bottles of Australia in the Canberra suburb of Hume was going to end well. Turnbull was…
Tony Abbott gave another jab at Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership this week in a speech and in an interview on Sky.
The latest reflection on just how appalling things are in federal politics came this week from former Treasury head Ken Henry.
Hospitality, fast food, retail and pharmacy workers stand to lose thousands of dollars per year after the Fair Work Commission’s landmark decision to cut penalty rates on Sundays and public holidays.
The Senate has voted 35-21 to note that its newest member, Victorian Labor senator Kimberley Kitching, was found to have provided untruthful evidence to the Fair Work Commission.
It’s uncommon internationally for workers to have a statutory right to paid domestic violence leave, but things may be shifting.
Are penalty rates no longer relevant in the retail industry — and do they cost jobs? Recent research compared two neighbouring states where one raised rates to the other’s level to find the answer.
Employers run the risk of breaking the law if they are getting interns to do work that otherwise would be done by paid employees.
A case involving the suppression of academic research into racism - by a university - raises troubling questions.
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