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Business and unions on common ground before summit, but Canberra clash looms

The jobs summit brings together unions, business and government, with a focus on industrial relations reform, skills and training reform, and migration.

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Unions and businesses unite on TAFE and training ahead of Jobs and Skills Summit

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he is "energised" by unions and business groups uniting to tackle problems in the training sector, despite them being at loggerheads about whether multi-employer bargaining should return.

ABC News

Unions and business agree on need for higher wages as jobs summit looms

ACTU and business council want to revive ‘key principles’ of enterprise bargaining deal that was dumped in 2020 after industry backlash

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Grattan on Friday: Can Albanese government wring consensus from union-business impasse over industrial relations?

The escalating cost of living is your ally when you’re an opposition seeking election, but when you’re in office, it’s a rampaging beast to manage, economically and politically.

The Conversation

Sally McManus says union demands at job summit will centre on collective bargaining

Workers and their union representatives would be allowed to negotiate deals on pay and conditions with multiple employers at once and sometimes across entire sectors, under proposals the trade union movement will take to the Albanese government's upcoming jobs summit.

ABC News

Jobs summit must endorse sector-wide pay claims to lift wages, unions say

Sally McManus says industry-level bargaining across workplaces essential to address Australia’s wages crisis

The Guardian - AU

Rethink bargaining for wage growth: unions

Access to collective bargaining arrangements would help lift wages in sectors like disability and child care, the peak union body says.

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Sally McManus says labour's share of GDP is the lowest it's been since 1960. Is that correct?

ACTU secretary Sally McManus says worker's share of wealth is the lowest it's ever been, pointing to the labour's share of income statistics as evidence. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News

Peter Dutton says Liberals will not attend government's national jobs summit

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton rejects an invitation to next month's national jobs summit, which the government is spruiking as a key moment in designing its economic and workplace policy.

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Labor government may remove ‘red tape’ in collective bargaining rules in bid to lift wages

‘We particularly want to make sure the bargaining system works for small business and for women’, says Burke

The Guardian - AU

Tug workers stop for half a day as Svitzer tries to terminate enterprise agreement

Newcastle shipping movements halted Friday in national strike

Newcastle Herald

Environmental and Covid challenges threaten Australia’s productivity rate after slowest growth in 60 years

Country generates seven times more output than in 1900, review finds, but remains ‘highly exposed’ to threats of climate change

The Guardian - AU

Is working from home bad for you? Workers at home report longer hours, ineffectiveness and weight gain

As COVID numbers continue to rise, you may find yourself back working at the kitchen table or home office.

ABC News

Unions warn Tony Burke against potential debate on the better-off-overall test

Workplace relations minister says he will ‘take some convincing’ on industrial relations changes as he announces gutting of building watchdog

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'Good' bosses allow work from home: unions

The ACTU has called on employers to let staff stay home as COVID-19 cases rise.

The Guardian - AU

Working from home: major Australian employers respond to latest Covid health advice

Telstra and Westpac advise staff to work from home if possible while government departments are yet to shift work settings

AAP

Unions welcome govt's payment backflip

Australian unions support the federal government reversing a decision to end paid COVID-19 pandemic leave.

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Snap national cabinet meeting to be held after calls for COVID-19 pandemic leave payments to be reinstated

Anthony Albanese will meet with state and territory leaders on Monday as the federal government faces calls to reinstate the pandemic leave disaster payment amid surging COVID-19 cases.

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Government eyes increase to skilled migration, but says it won't be the simple fix to Australia's labour woes

Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he is in discussions with business about a temporary increase to the nation's skilled migration intake, as the sector lobbies for 200,000 visas to be offered to address labour shortages.

ABC News

Got COVID-19? From today the government won’t pay you to stay at home

The Albanese government has pushed ahead with plans made by the previous administration to end the pandemic disaster payments.

ABC News

Future make-up of RBA board a 'key consideration' going forward, says Federal Treasurer

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers throws his support behind calls for the Reserve Bank board to be more representative of the broader Australian community, following scathing criticism that it is out of touch with workers demanding wage increases.

The Guardian - AU

Jim Chalmers says inflation will go higher, but unions are right to push for higher wages

Treasurer says it is ‘uncontroversial’ for unions to note that wage rises are below inflation, and suggests there may be a place for workers’ representative on RBA board

The Guardian - AU

What does the Reserve Bank’s 3.5% pay rise ‘anchor’ mean for Australian workers?

Inflation is predicted to reach 7% by year’s end but the RBA’s Philip Lowe says wages growth of about 3.5% will keep economy moving

ABC News

ACTU Secretary Sally McManus says Reserve Bank in 'boomer fantasy land' over wage-price spiral fears

ACTU Secretary Sally McManus warns that the Reserve Bank is out of touch and living in "boomer fantasy land" if it thinks workers can afford real cuts to their wages.

AAP

Dutton doesn't want RBA board compromised

ACTU secretary Sally McManus has criticised the make-up of the Reserve Bank board, but Opposition Leader Peter Dutton doesn't want to see a union leader on it.

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