30/01/2022
The Federal and SA Governments’ lack of action to address skills shortages in the health, aged care and disability sectors has been exposed with some COVID positive workers having to continue working while unwell, in the absence of alternatives.
17/01/2022
SA Unions has today welcomed the South Australian Parliament’s Select Committee Report on wage theft and endorses the report’s 37 recommendations which, if implemented, will constitute a major step forward in delivering South Australian workers the fairness and justice they deserve.
17/01/2022
Unions from across the country held an emergency meeting today to consider options to respond to the Omicron crisis. In response to the failure of Steven Marshall and Scott Morrison to take action to protect the safety of workers, union members will commence taking whatever steps necessary to ensure they are as safe as possible.
16/12/2021
Today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has confirmed that real wages will go backwards this financial year, after years of stagnant wage growth under the Morrison Government. As inflation outpaces wage growth, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is delivering Australians a pay cut for Christmas.
06/12/2021
As Australia emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and state economies begin opening, South Australian workers are being left behind with casualised, insecure jobs where they struggle to find enough work hours to make ends meet.
01/12/2021
The Treasurer’s commentary on his new assessment guidelines reads like he’s the champion of working people. The truth, as it usually is with the Treasurer, is buried in technicality. Rob Lucas’s double deduction remains in the new guidelines. The Return to Work Act requires a monetary deduction be applied for previous compensation paid for the same injury site. The new Impairment Assessment Guidelines now additionally require a deduction for pre-existing and asymptomatic injuries.
01/12/2021
More than 1100 jobs have been lost from the South Australian naval shipbuilding industry or are in serious doubt, with former Naval Group employees only being guaranteed 3 months’ work at ASC.600 construction workers face uncertainty as Australian Naval Infrastructure shut the gates on the construction of the new shipyard building for the Naval Group subs. Many workers were locked out following the announcement that the project had been scrapped, without even being given access to retrieve their tools.
01/12/2021
Two months after The Fair Work Ombudsman begun action against Yuxuan Group, which operated “Fun Tea” outlets on Gouger Street, York Street and Rundle Mall, the company has entered liquidation, leaving the underpaid workforce high and dry and out of pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars.
17/11/2021
In a stunning chain of events at Parliament today the South Australian Liberals voted unanimously to strip working South Australians of their Christmas Eve public holiday penalty rates.
16/09/2021
This morning’s surprise announcement of the scrapping of the Attack Class Submarine project with Naval Group has left more questions than answers for South Aussie workers and businesses.