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WNBL players celebrate the league's ground-breaking new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), which gives players on minimum ...
Young people in insecure work are disproportionately impacted by wage theft, with 30 per cent of 18-year-old casual workers ...
Bhutan’s national minimum wage is over 50 times lower than that of Australia, raising questions about wage-setting frameworks and economic equity. As of July 2024, Australia’s Fair Work Commission set ...
The WNBL salary cap will grow by almost $200,000 and the minimum wage will double over the life of a landmark new collective ...
The targets of wage theft tend to be those with less power in the workplace," ACTU secretary Sally McManus said.
Employers across Australia are proposing a minimum wage hike that won't go higher than 2.6% as they push for a "far more moderate approach" to the increase. The Australian Industry Group, the national ...
On Wednesday, Labor announced its submission to the Commission recommends “an economically sustainable real wage increase” for Australia’s award and minimum wage workers. Previously ...
Minimum and award wages in Australia need to go up by five to nine per cent this year to restore low-paid workers' real buying power back to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report. Research ...
The federal government doesn’t set minimum and award wages directly. That job falls to the Fair Work Commission, Australia’s independent national workplace relations tribunal. Each year ...
The analysis is released on the first day of early voting for the upcoming federal election, along with Demos polling showing that stopping wage theft is important or extremely important as an issue ...