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November 26, 2024
The ACTU welcomes today’s report by the Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence with its strong emphasis on proposals to protect workers’ rights amid the widespread adoption of AI systems and other new technologies.
November 19, 2024
New work rights and higher wages in sectors like aged care are closing the gender pay gap, at a rate three times faster than under prior Coalition governments, according to an ACTU report out today.
November 14, 2024
Early childhood education and care workers at Australia’s largest early education provider are set for a generous pre-Christmas pay rise, in a new enterprise agreement with Goodstart Early Learning.
November 13, 2024
New ABS data today shows real wages increased 0.6 per cent in the last quarter, off the back of strong wage growth, and lower inflation.
November 3, 2024
Unions welcome the Albanese Government’s announcement to legislate 100,000 Fee-Free TAFE places each year from 2027.
November 1, 2024
From today, more than 800 cabin crew employed through labour hire will see pay rises of up to 28 per cent, with the wage increases backdated from their next pay period.
October 31, 2024
An industrial relations “blueprint” paper from the conservative HR Nicholls Society outlines a radical employers’…
October 30, 2024
The ACTU is urging the Reserve Bank of Australia to start pulling down interest rates before the end of the year, following today’s inflation figure coming in at 2.8 per cent.
October 30, 2024
The ACTU welcomes Australia becoming the first country in the Asia-Pacific region, and among the first globally, to ratify all 10 fundamental International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions following the ratification of two work health and safety Conventions in Geneva at a tripartite ceremony consisting of unions, employers and governments.
October 28, 2024
Australian Unions are taking aim at the country’s most powerful mining interests for lobbying the Coalition to undo the Albanese Government’s new Same Job Same Pay rights which come into effect on the first of November.
