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  Australia’s banks must pass on in full any cut to official interest rates by the Reserve Bank this week or they may need to face not only a community backlash but the prospect of greater regulation.  
  Employers must move on from old-fashioned ideas about women’s work and make a genuine commitment to overcome the 18% gap between men and women’s pay.  
  A new partnership between unions and the Jack Thompson Foundation will aim to deliver better outcomes for Indigenous Australians through new skills and job training opportunities.  
  Today’s ruling by the full bench of Fair Work Australia on pay equity for social and community sector workers is a landmark in the fight for equal pay for women.  
 
Howe Inquiry swamped with stories and submissions about insecure work
24.01.12 | Media Release | Secure Jobs. Better Future
More than 450 workers, unions, community and other representative groups have lodged a submission with the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia.
 
  Employers must pull out all stops to protect Australian jobs and not take a gunshot approach to addressing global economic challenges.  
  A Productivity Commission inquiry into default superannuation funds in modern awards will shed welcome light onto the relative performance of industry and retail funds.  
  The Australian Government must consider economic sanctions against Fiji’s military regime in the wake of new laws that place even greater restrictions on human rights in the island nation.  
  A new national awareness campaign begins today to inform workers of their rights and employers of their obligations under harmonised health and safety laws.  
  The Australian Government’s decision to renew a textile, clothing and footwear scheme with the Fijian Government under a multi-lateral trade agreement will do nothing to improve the lives of lowly paid Fijian textile workers.  
  Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu is the only Australian leader to deny workers a public holiday to compensate for Christmas Day this year falling on a Sunday.  
  Next year’s review of the Fair Work Act must not become a forum for employer grandstanding, and unions will take a strong interest to ensure the voices of working Australians are heard and that their rights are strengthened.  
 
Workers have an extra month to tell their story to Inquiry into Insecure Work
15.12.11 | Media Release | Secure Jobs. Better Future
Workers, unions, community and other representative groups have an extra month to contribute their experiences to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia.
 
  Australian unions will continue to steadfastly pursue human and labour rights in Fiji, despite the military regime’s refusal to allow entry to an Australian and New Zealand union fact-finding mission.  
  Workers across the country have less than one week left to contribute their experiences to the Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia, with submissions set to close this Friday.  
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