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Update on penalty rates and job-creation: 2 years later

July 1 marked the implementation of the next stage of reduced penalty rates in the retail and hospitality industries in

Kick-starting wage growth: what the Commonwealth government could do NOW

Australia’s economy continues to endure historically slow growth in wages and salaries, that is undermining household incomes, consumer spending, and

Union organising and labour market rules: two sides of the same coin

International evidence is clear that there is a strong, positive correlation between a country’s protection of labour freedoms, and the

Estimating wage trends from personal income tax data

New analysis of income tax data confirms a dramatic slowdown in Australian wages in recent years – and the slowdown

The importance of minimum wages to recent Australian wage trends

Tomorrow the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release its quarterly Wage Price Index: the most commonly-reported measure of wage growth

April holiday cluster highlights income losses from reduced penalty rates

Many Australians are eagerly anticipating a unique concentration of public holidays in coming days. There is a 10-day period (stretching