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Vital Signs

The Centre for Future Work has partnered with HESTA, the industry super fund for workers in health care and community

Collective Bargaining “Reform”

Business Council of Australia Research Confirms Centre for Future Work Research Coalition leaders hardly mentioned industrial relations topics during the

By Alison Pennington

The Future of Work for Australian Graduates

University-to-Job Pathways Key to Boosting Graduate Employment Outcomes The Centre for Future Work has released a major new report documenting

By Alison Pennington, Jim Stanford

Messing With Success

The Centre for Future Work has released new research estimating the negative impacts on wages and spending power of the

By Jim Stanford, Troy Henderson

Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and Employment

Despite its deafening silence on industrial relations issues during the recent election, the re-elected Coalition government is charging ahead with

By Jim Stanford

Unemployment and the Newstart Allowance

Australia’s Newstart benefit hasn’t been increased in real terms in a generation, and pressure is growing on the Commonwealth government

By Raja Junankar

Update on Penalty Rates and Job-Creation: Two Years Later

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

By Jim Stanford

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

By Jim Stanford

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

By Jim Stanford

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

By Jim Stanford

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

By Jim Stanford

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 ten-day period (stretching

By Jim Stanford