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Senate Select Committee on Work and Care: final report


This final report from the Senate Select Committee on Work and Care draws on 11 days of hearings across Australia, as well as 125 published submissions. The issue of predictable pay and working hours has emerged as an important and significant issue in the inquiry with too many Australians working in conditions that lack predictable...
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The results are in: the UK's four-day week pilot

Juliet Schor, Wen Fan, Orla Kelly, Guolin Gu, David Frayne, Brendan Burchell, Niamh Bridson Hubbard, Jon White, Daiga Kamarāde, Francisca Mullens

This report details the full findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, that took place in the UK from June to December 2022.
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Economic and other wellbeing in Australia – October 2022


This paper describes the trends, variation and determinants of wellbeing over the tumultuous period since COVID-19 first reached Australia and up until October 2022, with a particular focus on changes in economic wellbeing.
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Senate Select Committee on Work and Care: interim report


A growing number of Australian workers have responsibility for the care of someone else—perhaps children, an ageing parent or someone with a disability or chronic illness—while they are working. This inquiry is examining the ways in which the combination of work and care responsibilities is impacting on the lives and wellbeing of Australians.
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Work and life in a pandemic: an update on hours of work and unpaid overtime under COVID-19


This research reveals that almost three-quarters of Australians 'working from home' are doing at least some of it in non-work-time. The report calls for additional protections for people working from home, including limits on hours, overtime pay when relevant, allowances for extra home office expenses, and better OHS rules for home work.