News, media releases, opinions and articles from the Centre for Future Work.
Unpaid Overtime Rife, Despite Shift to “Work from Home”
New research has revealed that almost three-quarters of Australians “working from home” are doing at least some of it in non-work-time. This has contributed to a substantial rise in the incidence of unpaid overtime, which now costs Australian workers almost $100 billion a year.
Key Findings:
On a…
The Pandemic is Our Clarion Call to Rebuild Good Jobs
Victorians emerging from lockdowns now confront Australia’s harsh COVID-era work reality marked by more insecure jobs, mass unemployment, and long-term work at the kitchen table. Business representatives sit down today with government and others to talk about productivity. Who, according to those business representatives, will need to change the way they do things? Dutton’s nuclear…
Feature Interviews: Worker Voice in a Changing World of Work
Video recordings of the interviews are available here: The videos were recorded for a 5-week on-line course Power, Politics and Influence at Work run by the University of Manchester. The Centre’s staff are featured alongside several leading scholars, trade union activists and international agencies such as the ILO/Oxfam. Academics and researchers Tony Dundon, Miguel Martinez Lucio, Emma…
Budget’s Illusory Hope for Business-Led Recovery
The Commonwealth government tabled its 2020-21 budget on 6 October, six months later than the usual timing because of the dramatic events associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recession. There is no doubt it is a budget unlike any other in Australia’s postwar history. While the budget certainly unleashes unprecedented fiscal power, its underlying logic…
480,000 Jobs Rely on QLD Public Service, Cuts Would Deepen the State’s Recession
New research from the Centre for Future Work shows that cutting public sector jobs and wages would directly undermine the delivery of essential public services at a challenging time in Queensland’s history, and hurt the state’s economic recovery.
Key Findings:
Some 480,000 positions are supported…
New Analysis: 12,000 Community Service Jobs at Risk Due to Funding Uncertainty
New economic research shows up to 12,000 community service jobs are at risk due to the Federal Government’s failure to confirm whether federal funding for community service organisations will be maintained.
Key Findings:
The Federal Government is yet to confirm whether it will continue $576.5 mil…