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Submission to Senate Inquiry into the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020

In December 2020, the Senate of Australia launched an important inquiry into the federal government’s proposed Fair Work Amendment Bill.

By Alison Pennington, Jim Stanford

How non-union agreements suppress wage growth – and why the omnibus bill will lead to more of them

The federal government’s omnibus Industrial Relations bill proposes sweeping changes to labour laws which will generally enhance the power of

By Alison Pennington

2020 Year-End Labour Market Review: Insecure Work and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Pandemic Exacerbated Inequality, Insecurity in Australia’s Labour Market Australia’s labour market experienced unprecedented volatility during 2020 due to the Covid-19

By Dan Nahum, Jim Stanford

Employment Aspects of the Transition from Fossil Fuels in Australia

New research by the Centre for Future Work, commissioned by health care industry super fund HESTA, finds that a planned

By Jim Stanford

Heat stress and work in the era of climate change

New research has confirmed that climate change is contributing to the growing problem of heat stress in a wide range

By Elizabeth Humphrys, Freya Newman, James Goodman

Work and Life in a Pandemic

Unpaid Overtime Rife, Despite Shift to “Work from Home” 2020 marks the twelfth annual Go Home on Time Day, an

By Dan Nahum

Rebooting Australian Aluminium

A new report from the Centre for Future Work highlights the continuing economic importance of Alcan’s aluminium smelter in Portland,

By Jim Stanford

The Choices We Make

New research by the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work analyses the economic effects of COVID-19 on Tasmania, and suggests

By Dan Nahum

Public Service in Challenging Times

480,000 Jobs Rely on QLD Public Service, Cuts Would Deepen the State’s Recession In times of crisis, governments have a

By Dan Nahum

Pay Equity in Community Services

New Analysis: 12,000 Community Service Jobs at Risk Due to Funding Uncertainty The failure of the Commonwealth to confirm that

By Jim Stanford

Technology, standards and democracy

Workers in most industries and occupations worry about the effects of accelerating technological change on their employment security and prospects.

By Dan Nahum, Jim Stanford

The robots are NOT coming

Australia’s economy is now regressing in its use of new technology, with negative implications for productivity, incomes, and job quality.

By Jim Stanford