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Recent Media Releases
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.
Urgent action needed as real wages fall to 2011 level
August 17, 2022
Wage growth has flatlined, rising by only 0.7 per cent to 2.6 per cent, less than half the rate of
inflation at 6.1 per cent, according to data released by the ABS this morning.
Banking CEOs pay up 36 per cent as banks make billions by suppressing wages
August 13, 2022
Banks and insurance companies raked in billions according to financial year end of interim results this week, with CEO pay increasing by tens of millions. This coincides with big banks advocating against increasing wages and suppressing their own workers’ wages or sacking them.
Full and secure employment must be top economic goal
August 10, 2022
Full and secure employment should be the top macro-economic goal of the Federal Government according to the ACTU in a new paper released this morning ahead of the Jobs Summit in early September
ACTU welcomes action on EBA terminations
August 8, 2022
The ACTU welcomes today’s commitment from Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke to stop employers using the threat of EBA terminations as a bargaining tactic.
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