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The Long-Term Consequences of Wage Freezes for Real Wages, Lifetime Earnings, and Superannuation

New research from the Centre for Future Work has dramatised the lasting consequences for workers’ lifetime incomes – even after

By Jim Stanford

Needle in a Haystack

The latest economic statistics have confirmed that Australia’s economy is barely limping along – with quarterly GDP growth of just

By Jim Stanford

Precarity and job instability on the frontlines of NDIS support work

The national roll-out of the NDIS holds the prospect of a significant enhancement in both the resources allocated to disability

By Donna Baines, Fiona Macdonald, Jim Stanford, Jessie Moore

Excessive Hours and Unpaid Overtime: 2019 Update

‘Go Home on Time Day’ 2019: Australian Employers Pocketing $81 Billion Worth of Unpaid Overtime, Report Reveals New research from

By Bill Browne

The Relationship Between Superannuation Contributions and Wages in Australia

New research from the Centre for Future Work shows that scheduled increases in employers’ minimum statutory superannuation contributions would have

By Jim Stanford

Tolerate Unemployment, but Blame the Unemployed

Chronic Unemployment a Consequence of Deliberate Economic Policies For the last generation macroeconomic policy in Australia has been based on

By David Richardson

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