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The national minimum wage has been raised.

Employers warn of price pressures as one in five workers get 4.75% pay rise

Millions of Australians have been handed a pay rise, and the lowest-paid workers are getting the biggest bump in a move employer groups warn will fuel inflation.

  • Millie Muroi and Brittany Busch

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Garment workers in Bangladesh, which has been linked in the past to forced labour.

‘Exploitation isn’t sustainable’: $100 trillion investor coalition demands overhaul of modern slavery laws

A powerful coalition has stepped up pressure on the government to introduce tougher laws, three years after a review found Australia’s legal framework had failed to create meaningful change.

  • Rob Harris
Ovarian torsion occurs when the ovary twists on its ligaments, severing its own blood supply. A narrow window of time exists to operate and save the organ before it becomes necrotic and dies.

Hundreds of women told us about their struggle with this condition. Would leave from work help?

Dedicated menstrual, or reproductive health, leave is once again being brought to the table. Despite the pitfalls, it is a discussion worth having.

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ACTU secretary Sally McManus.

Unions seek 5 per cent pay boost for lowest-paid workers

The ACTU has warned it may lift its claim higher, as global conflict and energy price volatility continue to drive up inflation.

  • Annika Smethurst
ACTU secretary Sally McManus says increasing annual leave will help make up for decades of shortfalls in real wage growth.

Unions demand Albanese hand every worker 25 per cent more holidays

An extra week of paid annual leave to compensate for unpaid overtime would be the first increase to the entitlement since the 1970s.

  • Millie Muroi
Labor Party doyen says the tax system actively hurts young people.

A ‘terrible’ system for young people: Tax reform architect pleads for real reform

Bill Kelty was instrumental to the tax reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. He says old people like himself don’t need more out of the tax system.

  • Shane Wright
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The commission’s 458-page final report pins the productivity fall on the growing regulatory burden across land use, building and labour, along with “increasingly interventionist procurement policies”.

LNP to retain character zoning to protect ‘Queenslander’ homes

The state government has rejected productivity commission calls to scrap character zoning in a bid to boost construction.

  • Matt Dennien
QCU leader Jacqueline King.

How the CFMEU turned a workplace safety regulator into a ‘captured pawn’

A senior Queensland union leader has outlined how the CFMEU sought to influence state laws, and her safety fears for a fellow unionist.

  • Matt Dennien
LNG leaves Gladstone Harbour in Queensland. The ACTU believes the federal government should slap LNG exports with a 25 per cent levy.

‘For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle

The federal government this week overhauled its superannuation tax reforms. Now the union movement says it should radically overhaul taxes on gas exports.

  • Shane Wright
Employees covered under EBAs are lucky enough to get a guaranteed annual wage increase. Just don’t call it a ‘pay rise’.

Another great Australian dream goes by the wayside

We’re still a long, long way from enjoying the 15-hour working week predicted in the 1930s.

  • Victoria Devine