11/09/2022
The Labor Government’s support for The State Assets (Privatisation Restrictions) Bill 2022 in the legislative council last week paves the way for its passage through the lower house.
06/09/2022
The Federal Government has announced plans to move ahead on giving workers and businesses greater flexibility to negotiate fairer and more competitive pay agreements across multiple employers.
22/08/2022
SA Unions have lodged South Australia’s state wage case with the South Australian Employment Tribunal (SAET).The state wage case determines the minimum wage ‘safety net’ for employees in the state industrial system (particularly state Public Sector and Local Government employees).
17/08/2022
In the same week, two horrific South Australian workplace incidents have come to light, because of SafeWork SA prosecutions (see below).
17/08/2022
Wage growth has flatlined, rising by only 0.07 per cent to 2.6 per cent, less than half the rate of Adelaide’s local inflation rate of 6.4 per cent, according to data released by the ABS Wednesday morning.
11/08/2022
Full and secure employment should be the top macro-economic tool of the federal government according to Australian Unions in a new paper released yesterday ahead of the Jobs summit in early September.
07/07/2022
The Federal government is under increasing pressure to restore the Pandemic Leave Disaster payment. Unions have been strongly advocating for the payment’s reintroduction with the Federal Government.
04/07/2022
The decision by the Albanese Government to axe the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment will mean a return to the earliest and most costly mistakes of the pandemic, with frontline healthcare workers and thousands of others forced to make impossible choices between obeying isolation rules and paying their bills.
01/07/2022
Today South Australian Workers will get a pay rise fought for by the union movement at the Fair Work Commission’s Annual Wage Review.
11/05/2022
As business confidence in SA soars and worker productivity growth reaches 10.3% over the last decade, unions stand firm on their claim for 5.5% increase to the minimum wage.