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November 13, 2025
The trend reflects a growing number of working Australians moving from casual and part-time work into full-time secure employment. The casual share of employment fell to its lowest level in August 2025, the lowest it has been since the early 1990s.
November 4, 2025
Australian Unions welcome the passage of the Albanese Government’s payday super legislation through Parliament this afternoon.
November 4, 2025
Unions are calling for new work health and safety laws to better protect workers from climate change, including extreme heat, natural disasters and air pollution.
October 30, 2025
Coalition MPs, including Andrew Hastie and Barnaby Joyce, have challenged the laws currently before the Senate, cynically exploiting women’s grief to raise their opposition to women undergoing late-term abortions.
October 27, 2025
Australian Unions are backing a bid to end junior rates of pay in a case starting in the Fair Work Commission today.
October 20, 2025
The ACTU warns that the Coalition’s commitment to attack workers’ bargaining rights would undermine Australian living standards, particularly for workers in low-paid sectors.
October 17, 2025
A third of jobs accounted for over half of all serious work injury claims over the past year, with healthcare and social assistance being the most common industries, according to new data released by Safe Work Australia.
October 16, 2025
The ACTU is calling on the RBA to cut the cash rate at its next meeting, following today’s ABS data showing a rise in unemployment to 4.5 per cent – the highest it has been in over three years.
October 15, 2025
The absence of weekly minimum hours leaves vulnerable workers subject to exploitation in a scheme that has already seen concerns raised of modern slavery.
October 13, 2025
The ACTU welcomes the Albanese Government changes to superannuation to make it fairer, and address inequities that were built in by previous Coalition Governments.
