A range of contractual clauses can be used to limit how and where you work after you leave a job. While they may protect legitimate business interests, their overuse undermines job mobility and innovation.
- Professor of Work and Regulation, Queensland University of Technology
Despite the controversy over multi-employer bargaining, higher wages are likely to come from other provisions in the Albanese government’s Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill.
Abolishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission may end up empowering the Fair Work Ombudsman to investigate alleged union misbehaviour.
We’ve researched co-operation at work for many years – and its much easier to talk about than to achieve, especially in a political system as adversarial as Australia’s.
Lifting wages will be a priority for the Albanese government to ease the cost of living. But the unions and the Greens are likely to push for more changes to tackle problems with the Fair Work system.
It’ll be harder for employers to underpay workers, but easier to offer them extra hours without penalty pay.
The Federal Court of Australia has rejected the notion workers can be employed as ‘permanent casuals’.
Wage growth has been at near depression levels for half a decade. It needs a push.
A new study quantifies unpaid work experience in Australia and shows how some young people miss out.
Employers run the risk of breaking the law if they are getting interns to do work that otherwise would be done by paid employees.
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