Industrial action should be allowed in multi-employer bargaining,say academics consulting on the government’s promised legislation who also suggest union involvement in enterprise agreements be made compulsory.
Industry leaders right across the food supply chain have criticised Albanese’s Jobs Summit for doing little to support domestic food security.
Cross-parliamentary pressure is growing to increase paid parental leave to 26 weeks,as the Liberals,Greens and independents accuse the government of talking big at its jobs summit but failing to deliver for women.
We all have our own mental picture of who’s unemployed. Match your picture against what ACOSS adviser Dr Peter Davidson told the jobs summit.
The prime minister has vowed to shake up politics,but it is too early to assess his progress. His test will surely come.
Some employers have used high levels of immigration to keep wages low and reduce the need for educating and training our own young people. But those days are numbered.
Opposition is mounting among potential gatekeepers to the government’s proposed industrial reforms after Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie said Labor was “bloody dreaming” if it planned to drive through legislation before Christmas.
The summit’s explosion of energy and enthusiasm for co-operative problem-solving was a manifestation of the frustration that had built over the past decade.
It was planned and coordinated,but this week’s jobs and skills summit could prove pivotal to the Albanese government’s first term economic and political agenda
The nation’s aged care peak body has joined other employers in warning pay deals across employers could lead to widespread strikes.
Anthony Albanese gains an immediate political victory from a successful summit. The hard part for the PM is what comes next.