Today’s jobs data ramps up the urgent need for a rates cut when the Reserve Bank of Australia meets next month.

The ACTU warns that the current push by Coalition members to cut superannuation will cost the average 30-year-old worker around $165,000 in retirement income.

Salary: The ACTU will offer the successful candidate a salary in the range of $93,959 - $98,089 dependant on skills and experience, along with an additional 15% superannuation, annual leave loading, ...

Today’s inflation figures offer further signs of a clear pathway for the Reserve Bank of Australia to start cutting official interest rates at its first policy meeting in February.

Employers can face jail time or fines of up to $7.85 million under new laws criminalising wage theft that come into operation today, after a long union campaign. More than one million Australian ...

The ACTU welcomes the establishment of a $120 million fund to compensate more than 1800 Qantas workers who were illegally sacked by the airline in 2020 – the largest case of illegal terminations in ...

The ACTU has branded a new workplace policy agenda being advanced by the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) as extreme. COSBOA is lobbying for the definition of a small ...

Unions warn that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal announced today will drive up power bills and worsen the cost-of-living for working people. The seven proposed nuclear reactor sites ...

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 ...

Working Australians want the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut official interest rates at the final opportunity for the year when the RBA’s two-day Board meeting wraps up tomorrow. ACTU Secretary Sally ...