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!

Meet Rylee: the need for job security

March 1, 2021

Job security. That’s all Rylee Miller is asking for. She just wants to know her job is safe and permanent.

Sexual harassment: Australian workers deserve much, much better

February 26, 2021

In the past two weeks, we have seen Scott Morrison and his ministers do everything they can to avoid scrutiny, and accountability, for their botched response to Brittany Higgins’ accusation of rape against a former Liberal Party colleague.

There could not be a greater contrast with Higgins’ courage, determination, and clarity.

What to do if you are sexually harassed at work

February 22, 2021

When former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins shared her account of sexual assault in the workplace, it sent shockwaves through Parliament and the wider community.

But for many women, what emerged from the headlines was a distressingly familiar story of toxic workplace cultures, unacceptable tolerance of sexual harassment, and a complete failure of those in charge to protect victims.

It may have changed, but Morrison’s IR bill is still a threat to workers

February 19, 2021

The Morrison Government’s backdown on one of the most dangerous parts of its industrial relations bill is a step in the right direction for workers—but this fight is far from over.

Morrison’s dangerous IR bill takes aim at take-home pay and secure work

February 8, 2021

Part-time workers stand to lose thousands in personal income, while others may be denied secure work altogether under proposed industrial relations changes, warns independent think tank, Per Capita.

Why the Government’s IR Bill is so dangerous and extreme

February 8, 2021

The Senate Inquiry into the Government’s dangerous and extreme industrial relations Bill has just begun.

The Morrison Government’s industrial relations bill will hurt workers, and hurt the economy

February 5, 2021

With Federal Parliament back in session, the fight over the Morrison Government’s Industrial Relations Bill is heating up.

Australian Unions oppose the Coalition’s dangerous plans—because they’re bad for wages, bad for workers’ conditions, and bad for the economy.