Insecure Work News Today

"By streamlining training and recognising the skills our people already have, we have significantly reduced training costs and boosted productivity", Group CEO Ang Kiam Meng comments.

30 November 2023: Today, during COP28, Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) released the 2023 edition of The GFA Monitor — a report to guide fashion leaders towards a net-positive fashion industry. The second GFA Monitor has been updated to include the latest guidance and insights from over 25 industry organisations in one cohesive publication. For the first time, the report includes new data insights from the Fashion Industry Target Consultation - drawn from over 900 industry participants in 90 countr...

Global Fashion Agenda has released the second iteration of its GFA Monitor report and urges fashion brands and retailers to accurately measure sustainability progress as they move from talk to action.

These women most often experienced workplace sexual harassment when they were in temporary, casual or contract positions.

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.

The Australian Labor Party and the trade unions have been waging a war against what they call insecure work and contracting for some years, but it is only now they are in power that the reality is starting to dawn.

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has slammed RBA Governor Philip Lowe after he warned Australians that "wages dont rise with inflation". 

Independent Senator David Pocock has again hit out at the government’s “rushed” industrial relations proposals but said he was unsure how long the Senate would need to pass the controversial bill.

Our five years of research reveals an industry facing push back from both workers and customers. Many workers we spoke with sought to leave the gig economy.

Uber, the poster company of the gig economy, has agreed its Australian workers deserve more employee-like conditions. Why it has done this now isn’t too hard to work out.