Research Topic: Labour Standards & Workers' Rights

Research Papers from the Centre for Future Work.

Increasing minimum wage would not drive inflation up: new report A significant increase to the minimum wage, and accompanying increases

Australians Working 6 Weeks Unpaid Overtime, Costing Economy Over $92 Billion: Go Home on Time Day Report This year marks

Widespread dissatisfaction with paid work hours, and employees working excessive unpaid overtime, are two of the key findings of the

Workplace Law Reform Must Limit Cancer of ‘Gig Work’ in Care Economy: Research The gigification of care is creating insecure

‘Go Home On Time Day’ 2018: Australians Owed $106 Billion in Unpaid Overtime, Report Reveals Each year the Centre for

International evidence is clear that there is a strong, positive correlation between a country’s protection of labour freedoms, and the

More than one in three workers in Australia usually work from home at least some of the week. Working from

Eight free weeks: Time stolen from employees skyrockets during COVID 2021 marks the thirteenth annual Go Home on Time Day

One in Five Worked with COVID Symptoms; Sick Leave Entitlements Must Be Strengthened Almost one in five Australians (and a

Australia can learn much from the policy leadership of the Ardern Government in New Zealand and its reforms to address