Rights at Work
Protecting Your Rights At Work
The “Rights at Work” category empowers workers with essential knowledge about their workplace rights and entitlements. Explore resources that explain leave entitlements, workplace safety standards, and protections against unfair dismissal. Learn how union members ensure every worker has access to fair treatment and safe working conditions.
Stand Up For Fairness And Equity
Understanding your workplace rights is the first step toward achieving equity and fairness at work. This section covers key topics such as minimum wage laws, casual worker protections, and superannuation rights, providing you with the knowledge to address workplace challenges confidently.
Collective Power To Protect Your Future
Union members work together to safeguard workers’ rights, from fighting against wage theft to improving job security. Discover how collective action drives change and creates a future where fairness is at the heart of every workplace.
See our articles below for more information about your rights at work!
Are you being bullied at work?
September 15, 2021
To help protect yourself from bullying in the workplace, we explain what bullying is and isn’t, and what to do if it’s happening to you.
Respect@Work must be the starting point
September 3, 2021
This week, the Senate debated a partial, incomplete and cherry-picked list of recommendations which were drawn from the Sex Discrimination Commission’s Respect@Work report, published over a year ago.
Equal pay in Australia – are you working for free?
August 31, 2021
Today is Equal Pay Day – a day to raise awareness of the gender pay gap in Australia.
10 free Zoom backgrounds for the union proud
August 20, 2021
Fight zoom fatigue, entertain your colleagues and show your union pride with these free Zoom backgrounds from Australian Unions
JobKeeper 2.0 – why a wage subsidy is essential to saving jobs
July 27, 2021
Australian Unions are calling for an immediate reinstatement of an updated JobKeeper program to support workers at risk of losing their jobs.
Australian workers urgently need JobKeeper 2.0
July 25, 2021
A new JobKeeper is urgently needed for all workers and should not be open to corporate profiteering. Add your support today.
4 reasons to join your union today
May 4, 2021
We can’t think of a better way to celebrate May the Fourth than joining the next best thing to the Rebel Alliance – your union.
Happy birthday ACTU – 94 years strong
May 3, 2021
The ACTU is celebrating 94 years as the peak body representing Australian unions, their members and families.
Safe Work 4 Women: enough talk – it’s time for action
April 14, 2021
Australian Unions has joined together with a diverse group of organisations representing women’s rights to demand the Morrison Government deliver real safety at work for women.
Break it down for me: changes to casual work laws
April 13, 2021
The Morrison government has created new laws that take rights away from casual workers and undermine job security for many others. We break down what the changes to casual work laws mean for you.