Working people will be pushing for pay rises across the board to counter high housing costs, the biggest cost-of-living pressure in household budgets. Wages need to keep pace with essential expenses ...

Australian Unions are calling for new national safety rules that require employers to stop work or modify duties when temperatures reach dangerous levels, warning that increasingly frequent heatwaves ...

Unions want the Government to phase-in a scale back of the size of the capital gains tax (CGT) discount so that working Australians have a better shot at home ownership.

Housing costs are one of the biggest contributors to cost of living pressures, and today’s Reserve Bank decision to lift the cash rate will only add to those pressures. Landlords with multiple ...

Australian Unions are calling out APRA for failing to sufficiently monitor for-profit super funds, impacting the retirement savings of all working Australians.

The ACTU is calling for a ‘fair go in the digital age’ following today’s report that one in three Australian workers are at risk of job loss by 2030 from the introduction of AI by big corporate ...

Australians would benefit from a shorter working week – including a four-day model – under a proposal that unions will take to next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable. The ACTU will argue that workers ...

Australian Unions have backed major tax reforms to tackle the national housing affordability crisis alongside increasing supply. Working Australians are increasingly being locked out of owning their ...

Australian Unions have welcomed a landmark decision by the Fair Work Commission to greenlight wage rises for thousands of BHP mineworkers upholding the new Same Job Same Pay laws. The decision to back ...

Australian Unions warn that the Coalition Leader’s plan to ban work-from-home arrangements in the public sector will reduce women’s job opportunities and drive down productivity. Nearly one million ...

The ACTU welcomes recommendations to strengthen workplace rights outlined in the newly released report by the House Standing Committee’s Inquiry into the Digital Transformation of Workplaces. The ...

Unions welcome the new right-to-disconnect laws coming into effect today as a cost-of-living win for working people. Today’s new rights will empower workers to refuse unreasonable out-of-hours work ...