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Collective bargaining ‘reform’

Coalition leaders hardly mentioned industrial relations topics during the recent federal election campaign, but now that the party is back

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

Wages, taxes and the budget: how to genuinely improve living standards

This week’s pre-election Commonwealth budget will feature reductions in personal income taxes, as the Coalition government tries to overcome a

Australia’s economy heads into election on a weak note

The ABS has released what is likely the last quarterly GDP report before a Commonwealth election expected in May. Coalition

Private sector wage growth still in doldrums

New data on private-sector business conditions confirm that wage increases paid in the private sector of Australia’s economy continue to

Penalty rates and employment: one year later

On 1 July 2018, workers in several retail and hospitality industries will experience a second reduction in the penalty rates

Wages, taxes, and the budget

The Coalition government’s 2018 budget features a plan to cut personal income taxes for many Australians over the next several