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Centre for Future Work

Owning Institution:
Report

Precarity and job instability on the frontlines of NDIS support work


In this report, researchers document the experience of front-line disability service workers under the NDIS based on first-hand qualitative interviews.
Report

Excessive hours and unpaid overtime: 2019 update


This updated research looks at the cumulative costs of unpaid overtime in Australia's economy. Survey data suggests the average Australian worker puts in almost 5 hours per week of unpaid overtime: coming in early, staying late, working through lunch and breaks and taking work home.
Report

The relationship between superannuation contributions and wages in Australia


This research shows that scheduled increases in employers’ minimum statutory superannuation contributions would have no negative effects on future wage growth, and that Australia’s economy can afford both higher wages and higher employer contributions to superannuation.
Report

Tolerate unemployment, but blame the unemployed


For the last generation, macroeconomic policy in Australia has been based on the assumption that unemployment must be maintained at a certain minimum level in order to restrain wages and prevent an outbreak of accelerating inflation. Now, after six years of record-low wage growth, this paper argues that it's time for that policy to be...
Briefing paper

Collective bargaining “reform”: What does business want? And what would actually fix the system?


This paper compiles the various proposals advanced by employers, and shows that together, they would constitute a thorough reorientation of Australia's collective bargaining system.

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