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!
Resorting to child labour instead of bettering wages and conditions?
September 6, 2022
Hiring 13-year-olds is a recipe for exploitative disaster. They would be paid even less than their 15-year-old counterparts and, owing to their age, would have so little voice and agency in their workplaces.
Denial of ten-minute breaks a multi-million-dollar screw up for McDonald’s
September 3, 2022
Some workers were offered free soft drinks instead of a paid break while others were told that the couple of minutes it would take to take a drink water or got to the toilet would accumulate to a 10-minute break.
Having trouble getting decent pay? Fixing the bargaining system will change that
August 31, 2022
Keep an eye out of the next few days for the union movement’s positive plan to ensuring millions of workers can get a pay rise.
Workers deserve easy access to the bargaining system
August 30, 2022
It is important to remember that the steady decline in enterprise bargaining is one of several factors contributing to this stagnation of wages.
Sally McManus provides a key answer to fixing our low wages
August 25, 2022
We are staring in the face of a massive cost of living crisis where the prices everywhere have gone up but our wages have not. So what do we do to tackle such a big challenge?
Wage growth is the lowest since 2011 but not for CEOs
August 18, 2022
Perhaps the only thing slower than watching grass grow is watching the rate of wage increases in Australia.
You ready to volunteer? Qantas is looking for baggage handlers!
August 10, 2022
On the latest episode of Have you been Joyced? we join the cast members on the tarmac as they load bags into the airplane hold. In response to a desperate callout for volunteers, Qantas senior executives have put aside their suits in favour of hi-vis vests.
Oil giants’ profits gleam while cost-of-living skyrockets and wages fall behind
August 5, 2022
Huge corporations have chosen to pass on costs to customers rather than absorb them. In a similar fashion, the big oil and gas companies booked super windfall profits while Australian taxpayers have subsidised the bowser price of petrol. The vast majority of these profits head off-shore to overseas billionaires and hedge-funds.
Union members speak up at parliament
August 3, 2022
“I want to be a leader for my community as well as people who are around my age group. I want to let them know, ‘You know what? Joining the union is really good. We need people like you’.”
Workers’ wages and rights have seen decades of setback. Here’s how unions are changing the trend.
July 21, 2022
u know how giant tech companies love championing the innovation and productivity of their workers? It was only a few years ago the billionaire tech company CEOs and executives were caught cheating their own employees.