Media Releases 2022
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Recent Media Releases
ACOSS and ACTU agreement
September 7, 2022
ACOSS and the ACTU have reached agreement on a range of issues discussed at last week’s Jobs and Skills Summit, including achieving and maintaining full employment, removing barriers to women’s participation in the workforce, properly supporting unemployed workers and lifting people out of poverty, and fixing our broken bargaining system to make it simple, fair and accessible for all working people.
Workers’ share of GDP plummets to lowest on record
September 7, 2022
Workers now have the lowest share of GDP on record at 44.1 per cent, according to today’s National Accounts data. Urgent action is needed to get workers’ wages moving as they’ve flatlined this decade
Investing in women could generate $111 billion annually
August 30, 2022
$111 billion can be generated every year by cutting gender inequality at work by half according to a new report, Delivering Respect for Women at Work, released today by the ACTU ahead of the Jobs and Skills Summit.
ACTU, Ai Group, ACCI, BCA release common interests on skills & training ahead of jobs summit
August 28, 2022
The ACTU, Ai Group, ACCI and the BCA are launching their ‘Statement on Common Interests on Skills and Training’ ahead of the Jobs Summit today.
Small business and unions agree to developing the right workplace system
August 28, 2022
In the lead up to the Jobs and Skills Summit on 1 and 2 September COSBOA and the ACTU have agreed to work together on key elements of workplace relations reform.
First Nations Workplace Symposium discusses reform ahead of Jobs Summit
August 28, 2022
Workplace reforms for First Nations peoples are being discussed by the First Nations Employment Alliance at the First Nations Workplace Symposium in Canberra today ahead of the Jobs and Skills Summit.
Bargaining must be simple, fair and accessible for all
August 24, 2022
After a decade of flatlining wage growth and deep real wage cuts, the Jobs and Skills Summit provides an opportunity for a review of a bargaining system which has not been updated to reflect changes in Australian workplaces and is no longer delivering the wage growth that working people need.
Energy Transition Authority critical to creating secure jobs for a safer climate
August 22, 2022
The ACTU calls on the Albanese Government to quickly establish a national Energy Transition Authority tasked with ensuring that workers and their communities affected by the move to net zero emissions, are fully supported, in a paper released today ahead of the Jobs Summit.
Wages flatline despite record low unemployment
August 18, 2022
Unemployment has remained historically low at 3.4 per cent, according to data released by the ABS today.
Wages need to rise along with guaranteed skills and training for workers in Australia to expand migration numbers
August 17, 2022
The ACTU makes expansion of skilled migration conditional on structural changes to deliver wage growth across the economy, investment in skills and training for local workers and reforms in the visa system in a paper on migration and skills released this morning.
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