award wages

Annual wages growth has hit its highest levels in almost 15 years, after significant pay rises for award wage earners and aged care workers came into effect.But the figure likely represents a peak for wages growth, economists said, as the…

Essential workers are spending about two thirds of their income on housing on average as the housing affordability crisis prices them out of their communities and exacerbates staff shortages across Australia.New analysis has found early…

Sinks blocked and filled with toilet paper, mounting piles of rubbish, and overflowing bins are a common sight for low-paid public school cleaners in NSW, who are tired of opening toilet cubicles to find a pile of human excrement on the…