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Research Papers from the Centre for Future Work.

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Public Services in the Hunter

The provision of essential public services generates extraordinary and far-reaching economic and social benefits for the Hunter region. A new report prepared

The cumulative costs of wage caps for essential service workers in NSW

Since 2012 the NSW government has arbitrarily suppressed pay gains for workers in state-funded public services (including health care, education,

Sustainable industrial jobs in the Hunter

New research from the Centre for Future Work shows that the rapid transformation of Australia’s aluminium facilities to sustainable sources

Technology, standards and democracy

Submission to the Select Committee on the Impact of Technological Change on the Future of Work and Workers in New

Rebuilding the NSW workers compensation system

Workers compensation benefits in New South Wales were dramatically reduced in 2012 by a newly-elected state government, citing an alleged

NSW workers’ compensation system has ample resources to maintain benefits

The workers’ compensation system in NSW has been dramatically scaled back and restructured since the current state government came to

False Economies: the unintended consequences of NSW public sector wage restraint

Budget-cutting political leaders regularly target the jobs and incomes of public sector workers as the first and most politically convenient