Working conditions
Report
Flexible but fair: the case for extending Portable Leave Entitlements to the NDIS workforce
This report examines the NDIS, and why a novel Portable Entitlements Scheme is a necessary policy intervention.
Report
Theft by any other name: unsatisfactory working hours and unpaid overtime - 2022 update
This report outlines key challenges in organising working time in Australia’s current labour market. These include insecure, non-standard working arrangements; limited ability for workers to achieve optimal working hours; and the scale and cost of unpaid overtime.
Report
Call me maybe (not): working overtime and a right to disconnect in Australia
A 'right to disconnect' could take several forms, and be implemented via different avenues in Australia. Based on international examples and the attitudes of workers in Australia, this report finds that implementing the right within the national employment standards would be the most effective.
Survey Report
Free to be flexible? The politics of new ways of working
London workers overwhelmingly disapprove of politicians urging people to not work from home too often, or suggesting those who do so are less hardworking, at the same time as over half say the cost of living is likely to discourage them from commuting into the capital, according to this research.
Working paper
Labour protests during the pandemic: the case of hospital and retail workers in 90 countries
With a novel methodology searching news events from world’s largest news agencies via the online GDELT project, this report documents protest of key workers against their working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in 90 countries.