Australia’s Fair Work Commission concluded that cutting penalty rates would create more jobs. Our research suggests it was wrong.
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Overruling the Fair Work Commission will give Labor what it wants, at the cost of diminishing the commission.
The major party’s Easter ceasefire allowed Malcolm Turnbull to resurrect the National Energy Guarantee.
The Labor alternative almost doubles the budget’s relief for these taxpayers, incorporating the early part of the government’s plan and then building on it.
A Senate committee has made the right decision by rejecting the Fair Work Commissions recommendations to slash penalty rates - here’s why.
The University of Canberra’s Michelle Grattan and Frances Shannon discuss the week in politics.
For Bill Shorten, cuts to Sunday penalty rates could become a pale version of WorkChoices.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
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.
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 this week introduced a bill that aims to put a stop to secret agreements between employers and unions without the knowledge of union members.
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.
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.
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.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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TR Ashworth Professor in Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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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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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of International Business, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
