Author: ACTU Policy Team
Policies, Publications & Submissions:
- November 19, 2024: Minding The Gap
- October 6, 2023: Personal Bankruptcy
- July 21, 2023: Making Multinationals Pay Their Fair Share
- April 21, 2023: Reply Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2022-23
- March 31, 2023: Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2022-23
- February 22, 2023: Corporate Insolvency in Australia
- February 17, 2023: Climate-Related Financial Disclosure
- January 23, 2023: Paid Parental Leave Amendment Bill
- December 16, 2022: ILO Convention 190
- December 16, 2022: Achieving Health Equity: The inclusion of occupational disease
- December 12, 2022: Restoring Real Wages and Full Employment
- November 21, 2022: Draft Risk Management Program Rules
- October 31, 2022: Bargaining for Super
- October 14, 2022: Your Future, Your Super Review
- October 14, 2022: Respect@Work Bill
- August 31, 2022: Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd Gippsland Basin Decommissioning Campaign #1 Steel Piled Jackets End State Environment Plan
- August 10, 2022: Climate Change Bill 2022
- June 8, 2022: Annual Wage Review 2021-22 – Reply to Supplementary Submissions
- June 3, 2022: Supplementary Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2021-22
- May 8, 2022: ACTU Reply Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2021-22
- April 8, 2022: Family and Domestic Violence Leave – Review – ACTU Response to Background Paper
- April 8, 2022: Family and Domestic Violence Leave – Review – ACTU Response to Background Paper 2
- April 8, 2022: Family and Domestic Violence Leave – Review – Final Submissions of the ACTU – Submissions
- April 1, 2022: ACTU Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2021-2022
- March 31, 2022: Bargaining for Super
- March 1, 2022: Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure Protection) Bill 2022
- February 25, 2022: National Plan to end Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032
- February 21, 2022: Family and Domestic Violence Leave Review – Reply Submissions of the ACTU
- February 18, 2022: The Future of Online Proceedings
- December 20, 2021: Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 and related bills I Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (PJCHR)
- December 20, 2021: Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 and related bills I Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee
- November 24, 2021: ACTU Submission to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency Review 2021
- November 12, 2021: Work Shouldn’t Hurt
- October 15, 2021: Retirement Income Covenant Exposure Draft
- October 14, 2021: Workplace Insurance
- October 13, 2021: Review into the NSW Home Building Act
- September 30, 2021: ACTU response to Migrant Amendment (Protecting Migrant Workers) Bill 2021
- September 21, 2021: Future Fund Exemptions
- September 20, 2021: On solid foundations: Setting up offshore wind for success
- August 13, 2021: Financial Accountability Regime
- August 6, 2021: Retirement Income Covenant
- July 30, 2021: Family and Domestic Violence Leave – Review
- July 27, 2021: ACTU CONSTITUTION, RULES AND STANDING ORDERS As amended at ACTU Congress 2021
- July 9, 2021: Ending JobKeeper Profiteering
- July 9, 2021: Respect@Work
- July 7, 2021: Critical Infrastructure
- June 30, 2021: Open Consultation – Statutory Fund Management
- June 8, 2021: Reply to Supplementary Submissions Annual Wage Review 2020-21
- June 4, 2021: Greater transparency of proxy advice, consultation paper
- June 4, 2021: Supplementary Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2020-21
- May 14, 2021: Post Budget Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2020-21
- April 30, 2021: Insecure Work in Australia
- April 29, 2021: Supporting Australian Exports
- April 27, 2021: For a Stronger, Balanced and Inclusive Recovery
- April 23, 2021: Reply Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2020-21
- April 21, 2021: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
- March 26, 2021: Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2020-21
- March 18, 2021: Your future, bank super
- March 11, 2021: Consultation Draft: Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Specified Diseases and Employment) Instrument 2021
- February 22, 2021: Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence and Security review of the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020
- February 12, 2021: Response Paper – Strengthening Prudential Requirements for Remuneration
- February 5, 2021: Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 – ACTU Submission
- December 21, 2020: Your future, bank super
- November 27, 2020: Sharing the benefits with workers: A decent jobs agenda for the renewable energy industry
- November 25, 2020: No-one left behind: Australia’s transition to zero emissions
- November 17, 2020: Working from Home Charter
- November 13, 2020: Working From Home Survey Report
- November 11, 2020: Leaving women behind: the real cost of the Covid recovery
- October 30, 2020: Review of the specified diseases and employment declaration for the purposes of the Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992
- October 21, 2020: An energy market plan that neglects Australian workers
- September 21, 2020: Action for Aged Care
- September 18, 2020: Treasury Laws Amendment (Self Managed Superannuation Funds) Bill 2020
- September 8, 2020: Virgin Unions Win Court Application to Protect Members Confidentiality
- August 25, 2020: Notice to members of ACTU Affiliated Unions within Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd and Ors
- August 21, 2020: Charting a New Course for Transparent and Inclusive Trade Agreements
- July 31, 2020: Inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence
- July 29, 2020: Paid Pandemic Leave
- July 22, 2020: Rebuilding jobs and our economy beyond the COVID-19 health crisis
- July 22, 2020: National Economic Reconstruction after COVID-19: A National Jobs Plan, And Five Ways to Get Started
- July 6, 2020: Missing some fundamentals in injury prevention
- June 19, 2020: A technology-led plan without a destination
- May 29, 2020: Supplementary Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
- May 4, 2020: Reply Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
- March 25, 2020: A Wage Subsidy for Working People, to Support Jobs and Livelihoods
- March 20, 2020: Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2019-20
- March 5, 2020: Submission to offshore clean energy infrastructure regulatory framework discussion paper
- March 4, 2020: Covid-19 Update
- February 7, 2020: Mentally Healthy Workplaces
- February 3, 2020: Living well after work
- January 17, 2020: Transport Security Amendment (Serious Crime) Bill 2019
- January 17, 2020: Ban on bargaining for super
- November 7, 2019: Attracting major infrastructure, resources and energy projects to increase employment: Project life greenfield agreements
- October 31, 2019: Wage Theft
- October 25, 2019: Stolen future: an amnesty for super theft
- October 25, 2019: The bonus question
- October 25, 2019: Newstart, or False Start?
- October 23, 2019: Indonesia Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
- October 23, 2019: Free Trade Agreement between Australia and Hong Kong
- September 9, 2019: Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019
- August 28, 2019: Public Services: Essential and Vital
- August 9, 2019: Offshore Resources Safety Review
- August 9, 2019: Recommendations of the 2018 Review of the Model Work Health and Safety Laws
- July 15, 2019: Putting more members at risk
- May 27, 2019: ACTU Submission: Annual Wage Review – Response to consultation questions
- April 15, 2019: ACTU Reply Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
- March 18, 2019: ACTU Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2018-19
- March 14, 2019: Implementing a Reporting Regime for ‘Sharing’ Economy Platform Providers
- March 14, 2019: Family and Domestic Violence Leave – Proposed deletion of modern award clause
- March 14, 2019: Inquiry into the Fair Work Amendment (Right to Request Casual Conversion) Bill 2019
- March 13, 2019: Fixing the on-demand economy and other insecure work
- February 11, 2019: A Genuine National Integrity Commission for Australia
- February 11, 2019: Review of the Asbestos Safety & Eradication Agency
- January 23, 2019: An Independant National Integrity Commission for Australia
- December 10, 2018: Consultation on Sunsetting Instruments in the Seacare scheme
- November 15, 2018: ACTU Union guide for workers, Health & Safety Representatives and their unions to ISO 45001:2018
- October 30, 2018: The Peru-Australia Free Trade Agreement (PAFTA)
- October 26, 2018: Modernising Business Registers and Director Identification Numbers legislation
- October 19, 2018: Supported Employment Award 2010 Proceedings
- October 1, 2018: ACTU Submission to Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters
- September 27, 2018: Reforms to combat illegal phoenix activity – Draft Legislation
- September 27, 2018: Loaded Rates in Agreements
- September 24, 2018: Inquiry into the provisions of the Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2018
- September 18, 2018: Family Friendly Working Arrangements
- September 12, 2018: ABN Abuse: The Rise of Sham Contracting
- September 10, 2018: Family Friendly Work Arrangements – Provisional View
- August 28, 2018: Submission to the European Commission (EC) – Sustainable Investment
- August 28, 2018: Submission to the European Commission – Low Carbon Benchmarks
- August 15, 2018: Wage Theft: The exploitation of workers is widespread and has become a business model
- August 8, 2018: Work Health and Safety Workers in the Offshore Petroleum Industry
- August 8, 2018: Review of the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI)
- August 3, 2018: Increasing the visibility of workforce issues in company corporate governance
- August 1, 2018: Independent Review into ACT’s Work Safety Compliance and Enforcement Framework
- July 25, 2018: Equal Remuneration Case
- July 13, 2018: Murray Review – Security of Payment Laws in the Australian Building and Construction Industry
- July 9, 2018: Corporate misuse of the Fair Entitlements Guarantee
- July 6, 2018: National Energy Guarantee Draft Detailed Design Consultation Paper
- July 2, 2018: Industrial deaths
- June 20, 2018: The role of Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments in addressing the high rates of mental health conditions by first responders, emergency service workers and volunteers
- June 15, 2018: Review of Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2017
- June 13, 2018: Four Yearly Review of Modern Awards – Family and Domestic Violence Leave
- June 13, 2018: Universal Superannuation for Universal Needs
- June 6, 2018: Four Yearly Review of Modern Awards – Family Friendly Work Arrangements
- June 6, 2018: Stolen Future: An Amnesty for Superannuation Theft
- May 31, 2018: Eroding the Progress Nature of the Tax System and Increasing Inequality
- May 28, 2018: Ignoring young workers at risk
- May 25, 2018: Workers need real action on unpaid super
- May 23, 2018: Homeworkers Code Committee Incorporated’s Application for the revocation and substitution of authorisations
- May 11, 2018: ACTU Post Budget Submission – Annual Wage Review 2018
- May 11, 2018: ACTU Response to Questions for Final Consultations – Annual Wage Review 2017-18
- May 10, 2018: Divergent Pathways: the growth of inequality in Australia
- May 4, 2018: Options for Greater Involvement by Private Sector Life Insurers in Worker Rehabilitation
- May 3, 2018: Turning away from failed trickledown economics
- May 2, 2018: Review of Model WHS Laws 2018
- April 26, 2018: Submission on the EU Framework Agreement
- April 23, 2018: The new ‘Comprehensive Progressive’ Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement: Putting Profit before People
- April 18, 2018: Supplementary Submission to the Review of the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016
- April 18, 2018: Work Health and Safety of Workers in the Offshore Petroleum Industry
- April 10, 2018: Review of the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016
- April 9, 2018: ACTU Reply Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2018
- March 13, 2018: ACTU Submission to the Senate Inquiry on Corporate Tax Avoidance – Exxon: Tax dodging and not paying its fair share
- March 13, 2018: Annual Wage Review 2018
- February 26, 2018: The Future of Work: Greater Inequality and Insecurity Unless We Act
- February 23, 2018: ACTU Submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee – Enhancing Whistleblower Protections
- February 2, 2018: Four Yearly Review of Modern Awards – FWC
- January 25, 2018: Inquiry into the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Diclosure Reform) Bill 2017
- January 1, 2018: The Inquiry Panel
- January 1, 2018: Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia
- November 2, 2017: Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Early and Effective Rehabilitation) Bill 2017
- October 24, 2017: Illegal importation of products containing asbestos
- October 24, 2017: Gender Segregation in the Workplace and its Impact on Women’s Economic Equality
- August 23, 2017: Inquiry into Superannuation: Assessing Competitiveness and Efficiency
- August 4, 2017: Treasury Legislation Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation) Bill 2017
- May 4, 2017: Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia
- April 28, 2017: Productivity Commission Draft Report – Superannuation: Alternative Default Models
- April 11, 2017: ACTU Submission to the Inquiry into the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017
- March 31, 2017: ACTU submission to the Annual Wage Review 2016-17
- March 29, 2017: ACTU Submission: Annual Wage Review 2016-17
- March 28, 2017: Gender Segregation in the Workplace and its impact on women’s economic equality
- March 28, 2017: ACTU Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
- March 28, 2017: The incidence of, and trends in, corporate avoidance of the Fair Work Act 2009
- March 15, 2017: Australian Foreign Policy White Paper – A Trade Union Perspective
- March 15, 2017: Inquiry into the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Commonwealth Entities) Bill 2016
- March 8, 2017: ACTU Submission to the Finkel Inquiry
- February 10, 2017: ACTU Submission to Senate Education & Employment Committee re Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Amendment Bill 2017
- February 10, 2017: ACTU Submission to Joint Parliamentary Committee: Whistleblower protections in the corporate, public and not-for-profit sectors
- January 9, 2017: ACTU Comments on Review of Safe Work Australia Roles & Functions, Jan 2017
- November 9, 2016: JSCOT Paris Agreement Inquiry
- November 9, 2016: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement Inquiry
- November 9, 2016: Working Holiday Maker Visa Review
- November 8, 2016: The Productivity Commission Inquiry into Superannuation: Alternative Default Models September 2016
- September 26, 2016: ACTU Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics
- September 15, 2016: ACTU Submission – Budget Savings (Omnibus) Bill 2016
- February 12, 2016: ACTU Submission – Pre Budget 2016 – 17
- November 17, 2015: ACTU Submission in Response to the Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on the Workplace Relations Framework
- July 30, 2015: ACTU submission on reforms to superannuation governance
- June 12, 2015: ACTU submission to Productivity Commission Inquiry into the migrant intake into Australia
- June 12, 2015: ACTU submission to Productivity Commission Inquiry into the migrant intake into Australia
- June 1, 2015: ACTU submission to the government’s consultation on the Tax White Paper
- May 29, 2015: ACTU submission to the Royal Commission into Family Violence, Victoria, May 2015
- May 1, 2015: ACTU submission to the Senate Inquiry into the temporary work visa program
- March 30, 2015: ACTU submission to the Productivity Commission inquiry into the workplace relations framework
- March 27, 2015: ACTU Submission to the Annual Wage Review 2014-15
- February 13, 2015: ACTU submission to the Senate Inquiry into private training providers
- February 9, 2015: ACTU pre-Budget submission for 2015-16
- January 30, 2015: ACTU submission to the review of skilled migration and 400 series visa programs
- May 20, 2012: Privacy
- May 20, 2012: Terms of reference
- May 20, 2012: Submissions
- May 20, 2012: Lives On Hold: Unlocking the Potential of Australia’s Workforce
