
News by Country: Australia
23 September 2020
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Statement from ACTU President Michele
O’Neil on Virgin Australia (ACTU, 5 August 2020)
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Paul Keating attacks Covid-19 super
withdrawal scheme as unfair burden on young (The Guardian, 4
August 2020)
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Former ACTU boss says workers have
shouldered enough pandemic costs (The Sydney Morning
Herald, 3 August 2020)
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Victorians to get federal paid pandemic
leave disaster payments (The Age, 3 August 2020)
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Woolies liquor warehouse workers walk
off the job after new virus case (The Age, 3 August
2020)
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Joint letter with ACTU: Federal paid
pandemic leave (Mirage News, 3 August 2020)
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A case is mounting for paid pandemic
leave. But it won't be a silver bullet (ABC, 2 August 2020)
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Melbourne educators could be abandoned without pay (United
Workers Union, 2 August 2020)
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What's behind wave of COVID-19 spreading
through Victoria's meatworks? (The Age, 31 July
2020)
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Spotless laundry shut down due to
coronavirus after company tried to force staff to work (ABC, 31
July 2020)
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Young people need a plan for economic
recovery that will deliver jobs (ACTU, 30 July 2020)
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Early access superannuation scheme
estimated to hit $42 billion in coronavirus support (ABC, 30
July 2020)
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$42 billion ripped from retirement
savings in ideological attack (ACTU, 30 July 2020)
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Spotless takes staff to Fair Work
Commission for refusing to come to work after coronavirus outbreak (ABC, 30
July 2020)
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Turosi Golden Farms abandons workers
during COVID-19 outbreak (United Workers Union, 29 July 2020)
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Scott Morrison opens door to paid
pandemic leave for workers needing to self-isolate (The
Guardian, 29 July 2020)
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Government must extend paid pandemic
leave to cover all workers (ACTU, 28 July 2020)
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JobKeeper could have saved university
jobs (Australian Associated Press, 28 July 2020)
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Fair Work Commission awards paid
pandemic leave to aged care workers to stop staff going to work sick (ABC, 27
July 2020)
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Union survey highlights aged care issues (Australian
Associated Press, 27 July 2020)
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Government must disclose plan for super
guarantee (ACTU, 27 July 2020)
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Woolworths employee wears second badge
in attempt to stop customer abuse (Yahoo News
Australia, 27 July 2020)
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How aged care workers felt during the
pandemic: new survey (The Australian, 27
July 2020)
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Dennis Atkins: Morrison government’s
labour law reforms will make a bad system worse (The New
Daily, 26 July 2020)
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Universities could lose 30,000 jobs as
COVID-19 hits overseas enrolments (The New Daily, 26
July 2020)
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500 Woolworths workers walk off for pay
equality and secure work (United Workers Union, 24 July 2020)
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Poll finds 80% support paid pandemic
leave (ACTU, 23 July 2020)
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Morrison must step up to save and create
jobs, deliver pandemic leave (ACTU, 23 July 2020)
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Why a Commonwealth-backed paid pandemic
leave scheme makes sense (The New Daily, 23 July
2020)
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Question marks over future JobSeeker
rate (7News, 22 July 2020)
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Calls for paid pandemic leave grow as
Victorian premier links Covid-19 surge to insecure work
(The
Guardian, 22 July 2020)
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Companies receiving jobkeeper have laid
off more than 700,000 excluded workers (The Guardian, 22 July
2020)
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Union campaign delivers continued income
support (ACTU, 21 July 2020)
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JobSeeker cuts will lead to ‘huge
increase in homelessness’, advocates fear (The New Daily, 21
July 2020)
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Unions launch plan for jobs led
reconstruction (ACTU, 20 July 2020)
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ACTU reveals its plan to ease
unemployment pain (The New Daily, 20 July 2020)
· National COVID-19 in aged care survey -
Final report (ANMF, June 2020)
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Survivors can afford a $30 a week pay
rise says the ACTU (Financial Review, 10
June 2020)
· Worker claims unfair dismissal after
questioning cleaning requirement for JobKeeper (ABC News, 22 May 2020)
· Employers fail to prepare for workers’
return (The Australian, 21 May 2020)
· Australian workplaces adopt physical
distancing but few other Covid-19 safety measures, poll finds (The Guardian, 21 May 2020)
· Record drop in retail spending shows
need for ACTU plan to rebuild domestic economy (ACTU, 20 May 2020)