Even after the new rises, Australia’s lowest paid employees will still have less buying power when they go to the shops than five years ago.
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New research finds economists and policymakers are too focussed on the unemployment rate and not on the quality of jobs young people are doing.
Many employers are appointing more women to management and paying fairer salaries, but there is a long way to go before the pay gap is closed – especially if you’re a woman in her 50s.
Sick pay is not available to everyone.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Development, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor in Economics, Queensland University of Technology
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ARC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Working Life, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney