It’s an attractively neat idea. But when it came to paying Roman soldiers, coins did the job admirably.
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Redistribution must recognise that most workers are in informal employment.
With inflation outpacing wage growth, NZ incomes are effectively going backwards. Australia’s collective bargaining rules could offer a remedy.
A dedicated court could help fill a gap for workers seeking justice, but the design will matter.
What explains civil servants’ decision to remain in a bankrupt administration during challenging times?
Glamour isn’t just for the rich and famous. As the ‘Ball Without Billionaires’ showed, the blue collar can bedazzle.
Global supply chains lead to companies capturing most of the value, while suppliers – and especially workers – get a much smaller share.
Researchers found pervasive worker underpayment in Australia, with two-thirds of temporary visa holders paid less than they were legally owed.
Understandably, some residents of the affected Melbourne councils are unhappy about the escalating dispute. But these are lawful, protected actions.
For workers still being deliberately underpaid, it’s vital to ensure these laws are actually working.
The decision will go some way to improve pay equity for young adults. But it will not directly address some other issues of fairness in the workplace.
Despite signs of progress, men are still almost twice as likely to be in the highest-earning income bracket.
If fair and equitable pay is truly a Canadian value, attention to wage inequality cannot stop at gender.
By 2025, 45% of full-time workers in Australia had ‘six figure’ earnings. But years of high inflation mean cracking this threshold doesn’t mean what it used to.
Businesses will not shoulder extra costs alone.
These extra payments are especially high real estate, financial services and other industries.
A horror stretch starting in 2020 saw an entire decade of real wage growth reversed in just three years. It’s a long way back up yet.
Stories about automation eliminating jobs and reducing wages were once common. But a comprehensive analysis of its actual impact paints a less ominous picture.
A first-of-its-kind study finds Amazon’s delivery drivers earn less and face more instability than their unionized counterparts.
This isn’t a story about university losing its value. It’s a story about Britain becoming a lower wage economy.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Emeritus Professor of Economics (Griffith University) and Teaching Associate (University of Queensland), Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Economics, Queensland University of Technology
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Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor in Working Life, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Work and Labour Market Policy, University of Sydney