Australian Unions are warning that scrapping the new right to disconnect laws risks adding more than 100 minutes of unpaid overtime every week for the average Australian worker.

Coalition Leader Peter Dutton’s assertion that the Reserve Bank of Australia is at risk of cutting rates “too early” shows that he has no idea about the cost-of-living pressures that working families ...

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 ACTU has fought for and won decades of wage increases through the award system and campaigns in the field, safer workplaces, greater equality for women, improvements in working hours, entitlements ...

Australian Unions are standing up to the McDonald’s fast-food chain in a test case over workers’ bargaining rights.

With the passage of the Albanese Government’s Future Made in Australia program, industries like green aluminium, solar and battery manufacturing, green hydrogen, and critical minerals could create ...

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Australian Unions have welcomed today’s announcement of Mining and Energy Union General President, Tony Maher as the new Chair of Safe Work Australia. Safe Work Australia is a national tripartite ...

Big business CEOs and their lawyers, none of whom would be paid less than $1 million a year are pushing for penalty rates and the right to disconnect to be abolished because “standard hours are less ...

Sally is the 10th Secretary of the ACTU. She was the leader of her union, the ASU in NSW representing community, public sector and private sector workers. She commenced work with the ASU as an ACTU ...

The ACTU has criticised billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart for behaving like an oligarch for trying to buy influence over the Coalition’s industrial relations policy.