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!
Have you got five minutes to shape your future?
July 17, 2025
If you could sit down with the federal government and the bosses of Australia, what would you say?
Union wins coming into effect from 1 July
June 25, 2025
1 July will bring higher wages, better conditions and stronger super! All won by union members of course.
Like your work-life balance and job security?
April 30, 2025
Dutton is a risk to your job flexibility and stability.
Secure Jobs Better Pay reforms lift wages by $6.3 billion
December 3, 2024
The Albanese Labor Government’s landmark Secure Jobs Better Pay workplace reforms – won by union members – have boosted economy-wide wage growth by $6.3 billion over the past year.
Asbestos Awareness Week: an enduring and deadly legacy
November 27, 2024
Asbestos use has a deadly legacy in Australia. But it’s not just in our past: still today, more than 4,000 Australians die from asbestos-related disease every year.
Permanent vs casual workers’ rights in Australia
November 13, 2024
In Australia, your rights as a worker can differ when it comes to your type of employment, especially when it comes to your health and safety, job security, wages and entitlements on the job.
New rights and protections for gig economy workers
November 4, 2024
Thanks to new laws which union members won this year, gig economy workers are entitled to the pay, rights and benefits that other workers enjoy.
Strings attached: casual workers are no longer just a situationship
October 23, 2024
Casual workers across Australia now have stronger rights and protections, thanks to new laws won by union members.
How these workers are getting a $30k pay rise
October 15, 2024
Labour hire loopholes were exploited by employers – but that’s finally changing thanks to union-won Same Job Same Pay laws, which unions have already used to win substantial pay rises!
Confirmed: Your work rights are on the line this election
October 14, 2024
Business groups are lobbying Peter Dutton and the Coalition to cut workers’ pay and conditions ahead of the federal election.