Labour rights
Alternative labels
Workers' rights
Labor rights
Report
The curious incident of low wages growth
This report considers why wages growth in Australia has been so low over recent years, despite a tight labour market and a brief surge in inflation. It documents how workers have lost power in the past two decades, with most changes in the economy and many in government policy taking away workers’ bargaining power, although...
Guide
Investor expectations for corporate just transition planning
This guide is designed to support stewardship teams in understanding, assessing, and engaging with the just transition plans of their investee companies. It provides actionable processes and templates to support investors in implementing best practice corporate transition.
Report
No blood – no job: Australia’s privacy laws and workers’ rights
Organisations in Australia are using blood analysis as a means of screening future employees for ‘health risks’ that they allege may impact on their performance of work. This report examines the need for new provisions within either or both privacy or workplace relations laws that set out the rights of workers to protect their sensitive...
Systematic review
The Accredited Employer Work Visa scheme in Aotearoa New Zealand: a human rights review
From non-existent jobs and wages to the potential for human trafficking – migrant workers are being exploited under the existing Accredited Employer Work Visa scheme. This review sets out a range of urgent human rights concerns and provides recommendations for improving the scheme.
Guide
Guidance on the right to disconnect in the public sector
This document provides general guidance to public sector employers and agencies on the implementation and operation of the right to disconnect legislation.