
News by Country: Australia
23 September 2020
(COVID
Update by ACTU at https://www.actu.org.au/coronavirus)
· Email your MP: Demand paid pandemic
leave (ACTU)
· List of employers who have agreed to two
weeks special leave (ACTU)
· Ratios for aged care - Make them law now (ANMF)
· Take action for working women (Megaphone)
· Survey shows $10 pay for food delivery
workers as NSW politicians push for more rights (TWU, 22
September 2020)
· Superannuation increase faces growing
opposition from Government MPs and economists (The
Australian Online News, 22 September 2020)
· Superannuation calculator: how would
scrapping the planned increase affect you? (The
Guardian, 21 September 2020)
· Workers demand Action for Aged Care (ACTU, 21
September 2020)
· JobSeeker, JobKeeper changes from
September 25 may cause economic collapse (News.com.au,
21 September 2020)
· Australia has sleepwalked into a society
where profit trumps quality care (The Guardian, 20
September 2020)
· Government must stay the course on
JobKeeper and JobSeeker (ACTU, 17 September 2020)
· Unemployment and precarity have spread
through the community like a secondary infection (Canberra
Times, 16 September 2020)
· Superannuation: Under-35s rush to raid
up to $20k from their super (News.com, 15 September 2020)
· Return to pre-coronavirus JobSeeker rate
could cost 145,000 jobs (ABC.net, 14 September 2020)
· Winding back JobKeeper and JobSeeker
will push 740,000 Australians into poverty (The Conversation, 11
September 2020)
· JobKeeper recipients paying millions in
bonuses to their executives, research reveals (ABC.net,
10 September 2020)
· Industry super funds to invest $33
billion in job creation (The New Daily, 9 September 2020)
· Prime Minister must explain Qantas
outsourcing revelations: TWU (8 September 2020)
· Qantas 'pandemic' ground crew exit had
been on the cards for a decade (SMH, 7 September
2020)
· Statement from ACTU President Michele
O’Neil on Virgin Australia sale to Bain Capital (ACTU, 4
September 2020)
· Australia plunges into first recession
in 30 years – but still no plan to support and create jobs (ACTU, 2
September 2020)
· AusPost invites volunteer parcel
deliveries while executives eye bonuses (SMH, 2 September
2020)
· JobSeeker and JobActive are meant to move people off
welfare and into work, but COVID-19 has changed things (ABC.net,
28 August 2020)
· Privately operated aged care homes
behind devastating Covid-19 infection rate in Victorian health workers (The
Guardian, 26 August 2020)
· Australians took more out of their super
accounts in June than they put in (The Guardian, 25
August 2020)
· Job bans hurting SA aged care workers (United
Workers Union, 19 August 2020)
· Jane Hume “ambivalent” about complying
with legislated super increase (ACTU, 17 August 2020)
· Workplace transmissions: a predictable
result of the class divide in worker rights (The Conversation, 17
August 2020)
· Frontline doctors and nurses sent into
aged care coronavirus crisis speak out (ABC, 17 August 2020)
· ‘I will never come to Australia again’:
new research reveals the suffering of temporary migrants during the COVID-19
crisis (The Conversation, 17 August 2020)
· Melbourne aged care nurse who caught
coronavirus says workers weren't properly trained in PPE (ABB.net,
13 August 2020)
· 7.5% per cent unemployed, more than a
million out of work for the first time (ACTU, 13
August 2020)
· Federal Government must intervene to
protect workers’ sick leave in a pandemic (ACTU, 12
August 2020)
· Companies using millions in jobkeeper
payments to pay increased dividends to shareholders (The
Guardian, 11 August 2020)
· Paid pandemic win at Spotless (Dandenong,
5 August 2020)
· Melbourne's stage 4 coronavirus shutdown
is hitting workers and business owners in different ways (ABC News,
5 August 2020)
· Melbourne nurse begged for better protection from coronavirus
before her 'worst fear' came true (ABC News, 5 August
2020)
· 83,000 casual jobs in Victoria at risk
as shutdown and jobkeeper exclusions bite (The Guardian, 5
August 2020)
· Federal government announcement has no
guarantees for educators (United Workers Union, 5 August 2020)
·
Childcare package bails out employers,
leaves workers in the cold (ACTU, 5 August 2020)
·
Virgin Australia to slash 3,000 jobs for slimmed
post-coronavirus airline, Tiger brand dumped (ABC News, 5 August 2020)