Australian Unions are pursuing a pro-job pro-worker agenda in the adoption of AI to ensure that it is safe and
deployed in a way that gives workers a stake in the gains while being transparent and fair.
The Albanese Labor Government is continuing progress work to establish a national worker registration scheme for personal care workers in aged care.
The new provisions will safeguard penalty and overtime rates as part of changes to the Fair Work Act.
Australian unions have welcomed the Albanese Government’s introduction of a Bill to protect penalty and overtime rates for 2.6 million award-reliant workers.
Australian Unions have welcomed the announcement of an independent two-year review of the Albanese Government’s Closing Loopholes workplace reforms.
One in five Australian workers sustained a mental health injury in the last year, according to new data released by unions today.
A hike in union membership by almost 200,000 members (12.5%) from 2022 to 2024 has been powered by growth among young workers, new data shows.
Australian Unions welcome the Albanese Government’s announcement to legislate a new criminal offence for large companies that fail to prevent modern slavery in their supply chains, a long-overdue reform that will improve corporate accountability and help prevent labour exploitation.
Despite the federal government’s legislative reforms, Australia’s aged care sector continues to struggle with chronic understaffing, rising workplace violence and a lack of transparency over how providers are spending billions of dollars in taxpayer funding meant for resident care, a new national survey of the aged care workforce reveals.
Health organisations gathered at Parliament House in Canberra today to launch a new report calling on the federal government to fund feasibility studies to electrify nine pilot hospitals across every Australian state and territory.
