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Two sides to the wage rise
Aren’t wage rises meant to be a good thing? Apparently not when they aren’t high enough to make a difference......
Workchoices hitting teenagers hard: report
A report launched today at The Annual Teacher’s Federation conference claims the introduction of AWA’s forcing school aged children to......
NAB announces more jobs going offshore
For Australian banks, offshoring seems to be the way to go to increase annual profits. This has been confirmed by......
Work Life Index
The results of the first Australian survey of work-life outcomes, The Australian Work Life Index, have just been released. Over......
Politicans’ Pay Increase
It seems that politicians won’t have to worry about any rise in the cost of living; they will receive a......
South Africa – A nation on strike
It’s been described as the biggest strike in South Africa’s 13 years as a democracy – thousands of workers have......
Stolen wages – how did we get here?
Western Australia has become the latest state to look into the missing millions of Indigenous wages and savings. Queensland and......
Western Australia’s inquiry into stolen wages
But as Heike Herrling reports the planned inquiry in Western Australia will need to have broad terms of reference for......
Labor to back fairness test
Labor today announced it will support the Government’s Fairness Test legislation which aims to soften the work choices bill. The......
Australia’s working poor number close to one million
A new submission to the Fair Pay Commission has revealed that increasing numbers of people earning a minimum wage are......