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!
Workers in unions prevent Apple employees being squeezed for excessive hours and low pay
September 19, 2022
The workers that bring you the ‘Genius bar’ at Apple have made a clever move: they’ve joined their union.
It is possible to take home millions of dollars in pay. But what’s the dark secret?
September 14, 2022
At first glance, it looks like there is a secret behind the extraordinary figures of CEO pay packets. After all, how is it even possible that anyone person can ‘earn’ hundreds of millions of dollars?
It’s not just newspaper sizes that have shrunk. Journalists’ wages have too.
September 8, 2022
The next time you read an article from The Age or the Sydney Morning Herald, have a look at the name attached to the piece. They may well be one of the freelancers who haven’t had an increase to their pay rates in 20 years.
Early childhood educators put children before profit
September 7, 2022
You would think that with childcare prices the way they are that early childhood educators would be paid well. But the thousands of childcare workers who took to the streets today have shown us otherwise.
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.