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Theft by any other name: Go Home on Time Day 2022

Australian workers are on average working 6 weeks unpaid overtime per year, costing over $92 billion dollars in unpaid wages

Call Me Maybe (Not)

Working overtime and a right to disconnect in Australia

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

Going nuclear: the costs of mid-bargaining termination of enterprise agreements

New research from the Centre for Future Work quantifies the dramatic risks faced by workers whose employers unilaterally terminate enterprise

Collective bargaining and wage growth in Australia

The reforms proposed in the Secure Jobs, Better Wages bill represent important but incremental steps in restoring a better balance

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,

The October 2022-23 Commonwealth Budget: A good start … but rocky times ahead

The new Albanese Labor government has tabled a revised budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year, revising revenue and spending forecasts

Inflation: a primer

Over the past year, inflation has accelerated both in Australia and in most advanced economies, to rates much faster than

Robbed at sea

Endemic wage theft from seafarers in Australian waters

Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Work and Care

Current work and care arrangements in Australia contribute to economic and social disadvantage for carers, the vast majority of whom

Profit share

The roles of profits, wages and costs in driving inflation has been widely discussed in recent months. Claims by the

An economy that works for people

The new Commonwealth government is hosting a major Jobs Summit in September 2022, bring together representatives from a range of