Media Releases
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Recent Media Releases
One in five young workers victims of wage theft as election looms
April 22, 2025
The analysis is released on the first day of early voting for the upcoming federal election, along with Demos polling showing that stopping wage theft is important or extremely important as an issue in the upcoming federal election for 81 per cent of undecided voters aged 18-24.
Penalty rates an important election decider: poll
April 19, 2025
70 percent of Australians say that protecting penalty rates is important when it comes to deciding how they will vote.
Australian Unions welcome landmark decision on women’s pay
April 16, 2025
Using improvements to workplace laws introduced by the Albanese Government in 2022, the Fair Work Commission’s ruling is set to lift minimum pay rates for a wide range of occupations.
Women in outer suburbs and regions hardest hit from Dutton’s plan to axe Free TAFE
April 15, 2025
Australian Unions today slammed Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton’s plan to scrap the Federal Government’s Free TAFE program.
Clerical workers could lose $7,000 in penalty rates as employer attack spreads
April 14, 2025
Australian Unions are today warning that employer attacks on penalty rates have spread beyond the retail sector to target workers in administration, banking and finance.
Bosses argue low-paid workers don’t deserve $3.94 a day to spend on lunch
April 10, 2025
The bosses push to deny low-paid workers enough money to buy their own lunch, which contrasts with Coalition Leader Peter Dutton’s policy to spend at least $1.6 billion in taxpayers’ money each year on free lunches for bosses.
Bosses argue that Western Sydney workers shouldn’t earn enough to live there.
April 10, 2025
Award-reliant workers should not earn enough to live in Sydney, be able to afford lunch at work, or save for overseas holidays, according to a major employer group, in its submission to the Annual Wage Review.
Workers would be $8,700 worse off today if Peter Dutton had his way
April 10, 2025
Australian Unions are releasing a new report today outlining how workers would be $8,700 worse off by now, if Peter Dutton had achieved his goal of blocking the Government’s major reforms to get wages moving.
$12,000 for bosses: Unions slam Coalition’s apprenticeship proposal
April 9, 2025
The Coalition’s idea to give $12,000 to bosses is out of step with the real pressures facing apprentices and trainees in Australia
Legal advice confirms all workers at risk from Dutton’s WFH policy
April 7, 2025
Legal advice from John Agius SC obtained by the ACTU confirms that a Dutton-led Coalition Government could only take work from home arrangements away from public sector workers through legislative change that would also take away work from home rights from all Australian workers.
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