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Where do the RBA and economists now stand on wages growth?

Decision makers are torn between wanting to lift wages for fairness and consumption, and wanting to keep wages down to control inflation.

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‘Deeply negative’: Real wages plunge at fastest rate on record before jobs summit

Australian households are suffering under the sharpest decline in real wages on record as “sluggish” purchasing powercontinues to lag soaring prices.

The New Daily

Unions and employers agree 40,000 more migrants a year needed to fill Australia’s skills shortage

Consensus on migration and increasing subsidies for apprentices could pave way for policy reform at government’s jobs and skills summit

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Wages, migration on jobs summit agenda

Flatlining wages, migration levels and the need to boost workforce participation for people living with disabilities will dominate the Jobs and Skills Summit.

AAP

Ideas welcome but tax cuts stay: Chalmers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the government is keen to hear from as many groups as possible at the upcoming jobs and skills summit, including the opposition.

AAP

Peter Dutton says Liberals will not attend government's national jobs summit

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton rejects an invitation to next month's national jobs summit, which the government is spruiking as a key moment in designing its economic and workplace policy.

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ACTU pushes for caps on energy bills and a windfall tax on corporate profits ahead of jobs summit

Report proposes big changes to Australian economy including giving workers more clout to bargain for better pay

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Corporations' profits soaring as inflation skyrockets and real wages fall, report reveals

There are fresh calls for Australia's biggest corporations to rein in record profits in order to provide low wage earners with some cost-of-living relief.

ABC News

The Reserve Bank has to navigate a path away from inflation but the economic signals are months old

While backward-looking labour market data is still robust, property prices provide a taste of the deteriorating outlook

The Guardian - AU

Paid Family Domestic Violence Leave Was Introduced Into Parliament So Here’s How It’ll Work

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Despite Australia’s soaring inflation rate, some economists say the peak may be ‘coming into view’

Analysis: Inflation optimists look to falling global supply chain pressures but spiking energy prices suggest we haven’t reached a plateau yet

The Guardian - AU

'Good' bosses allow work from home: unions

The ACTU has called on employers to let staff stay home as COVID-19 cases rise.

AAP

Long COVID cases set to grow as more people fall through the cracks of support

Up to 100,000 people could be suffering severe long COVID within the next three months. Another 300,000 people could have some limitations on their daily activities.

ABC News

Unions welcome govt's payment backflip

Australian unions support the federal government reversing a decision to end paid COVID-19 pandemic leave.

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Women's job opportunities in the spotlight at Albanese's summit

Ensuring equal opportunities and pay for women is one of the wide range of topics laid down for the federal government’s jobs summit, to be held September 1-2.

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'Arbitrary' super payment threshold to end

The $450 superannuation income threshold payment will end on July 1, meaning that employees will get paid super, regardless of what they earn.

AAP

Dutton doesn't want RBA board compromised

ACTU secretary Sally McManus has criticised the make-up of the Reserve Bank board, but Opposition Leader Peter Dutton doesn't want to see a union leader on it.

ABC News

Workers diagnosed with silicosis after being exposed to silica dust are calling for urgent action

More than 500 stonemasons have been diagnosed with silicosis nationally, but experts say it's 'likely just the tip of the iceberg', with miners, quarry workers and others in the construction industry at risk.

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YES: 8 Million Workers Could Be Entitled To 10 Days Paid Domestic Violence Leave By December

8 million Australians will be entitled to 10 days of paid domestic violence leave by the end of the year under promised new legislation.

ABC News

National minimum wage to rise in July, but inflation rate leads to cut in real wages for workers on awards

The national minimum wage will be increased by 5.2 per cent, while those on award rates will see a 4.6 per cent rise. But because inflation is at 5.1 per cent, the wage hike means less to some workers.

AAP

Union attacks wage delay proposition

Unions have criticised the push by business groups for a delay in any minimum wage rise, due to uncertain economic conditions and increasing costs.

AAP

Libs won't back 'artificial' wage figure

Employment Minister Stuart Robert won't reveal whether he would support the minimum wage to rise at the pace of inflation following dismal wages figures.

ABC News

Coalition remains non-committal on paid domestic violence leave after Fair Work Commission backs the entitlement for millions

The Coalition is remaining non-committal about legislating 10 days' paid family and domestic violence leave for all workers, after the industrial umpire backed a union push to grant the entitlement to millions of Australians.

ABC News

Will lifting the minimum wage worsen inflation and raise interest rates?

Wages have become the latest battleground in the election, with debate raging about how much extra workers can get paid without sending businesses broke and consumer prices soaring.

The Guardian - AU

‘Over-the-top alarmism’: economists dismiss concerns wage rises cause inflation

Australia’s minimum wage is shrinking compared to median pay, bucking global trends

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