Meet the cleaners on COVID’s frontline
Vaccinations are Australia’s pathway out of lockdowns - Australianunions.
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Respect@Work must be the starting point
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.
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Why are we waiting on early education and childcare?
Amidst the tumult of the COVID19 crisis, Australian families were given a glimpse of what a transformation to their lives - universal and affordable early childhood education - could bring.
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Spotlight on Job Insecurity and Wages: Tasmania
The insecure work crisis is hitting the workers of Tasmania hard. Tasmania has the highest level of casual work (26.6%) in the country - that's 4.7% higher than the national average.Tasmanian workers earn 13% less than the Australian median weekly wage. One in three workers in Tasmania are on insecure work arrangements including casual, independent…
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Unstable work and wages: a product of political will
Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics published their employment and wage price index for the June quarter. We take a look beyond the numbers.
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Equal pay in Australia – are you working for free?
Today is Equal Pay Day – a day to raise awareness of the gender pay gap in Australia.
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