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In video interviews with the WSWS, young actors speak about the crucial nature of the US strike for the future of the conditions of movie and arts workers in Australia and internationally, and explain how bad these conditions are already.

The company discontinued its application after the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association lent its support to a real-wage cutting proposed enterprise agreement.

Lower taxes on firms and individuals, fewer state taxes and increasing GST should be considered to restore the nation’s flagging productivity, Innes Willox said.

More than a change of legal definition is needed to shift Australia's culture of 'permanent' casual work, argues David Peetz.

In most wealthy nations all workers are entitled to annual leave. But that’s not the case in Australia – and the Albanese government’s reforms still won’t change that.

The bank agreed to start a Future of Work Committee to consider how emerging trends might affect jobs, technologies, skills and modes of employment.

Legislating a right to disconnect from work would undermine the move towards more flexible working, lawyers and employer groups have warned.

The Australian Financial Review reports that lawyers and employer groups in Australian have warned that legislating a right to disconnect from work would undermine the move towards more flexible working and damage competitiveness in the global economy.

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has confirmed small business exemptions to the casual conversion system will remain in place

There is effectively a class of Australian workers who don’t get holiday and sick pay, no matter how long or regularly they work, simply because their employer deemed them “casual” when they began.