Employee protection
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Employee rights
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Fixing unpaid super
Unpaid superannuation is a systemic issue costing Australian workers a total of $5.1 billion in a year. Its impact is most keenly felt among the workforce’s more vulnerable groups, exacerbating existing inequities. This report highlights what’s at stake in fixing unpaid super and provides policy detail to ensure that the super owed to Australian workers...
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Inquiry into workplace drug testing in Victoria
The purpose of this Inquiry is to investigate the legislative and regulatory framework for workplace drug testing, including the treatment of prescription medicinal cannabis compared to other prescription medications. The Committee aimed to understand whether the framework can be improved and whether current workplace drug testing laws and procedures are discriminatory.
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Making Australian whistleblowing laws work
These draft design principles, jointly developed by Transparency International Australia, the Human Rights Law Centre, and the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, provide a basis for policy dialogue to inform the design and establishment of a Whistleblower Protection Authority in Australia.
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Trading lives for profit: how the shipping industry circumvents regulations to scrap toxic ships on Bangladesh’s beaches
European shipping companies are knowingly sending their end-of-life ships for scrap in dangerous and polluting yards in Bangladesh. This report reveals a network used by shipowners to circumvent international regulations prohibiting the export of ships to facilities like those in Bangladesh that do not have adequate environmental or labor protections.
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The cost of courage: fixing Australia’s whistleblower protections
This report compiles every whistleblower protection case to proceed to judgment across Australia and finds there has not been a single successful decision for a whistleblower under the primary federal public or private sector laws.