The 2019-2020 Workplace Gender Equality Scorecard is in. The Scorecard demonstrates where businesses have focused their gender equality efforts for the reporting year 2019-2020 and where more attention is needed. Many employers were no doubt challenged this year with the…
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This blog was originally published in 2019 with data from the 2016-17 financial year. This updated blog post provides an update with data from the 2018-19 financial year. Please see here for original blog post.
When are employees entitled to call on their personal/carer’s leave to deal with family circumstances caused by COVID-19? The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raises a number of important workplace relations issues, including employee leave entitlements under the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act)…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has directly affected all industries, businesses, and workers in Australia throughout 2020. The Government’s response to the pandemic has highlighted the central role of manufacturing in recovering from this event and its importance in bolstering Australia’s economic…
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The 2020-21 Budget forecasts gross government debt to hit $1 trillion in the next year. In the coming months, we will undoubtedly see numerous stories about the need to get government debt back under control. A large proportion of Australians…
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The National Accounts released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirmed Australia has entered its first recession in 29 years. But how does Australia’s economic performance compare with other countries?
The COVID-19 crisis has had severe impacts on the domestic and global economies, and it has unleashed a plethora of suggestions about how Australia can return to pre-COVID-19 times when we were setting world records for the longevity of our…
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New research released by the National Skills Commission has identified 25 emerging occupations that have evolved as the way we work changes. Heavily based around technology, these occupations have been identified by combining traditional and near real time data using…
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While Australia was one of the earlier countries outside of China to record COVID-19 cases, by June we were congratulating ourselves, with apparent justification, for the success we had in flattening the curve. We now know that we spoke too…
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The OECD recently updated its comparison of global minimum wages for all countries that have a national minimum wage. In 2019, Australia overtook Luxembourg as having the highest minimum wage in the world. In the previous year’s comparison, Australia had…
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