Mable was launched in 2014 with a mission to “unlock productivity gains” in Australia’s aged care and disability sectors. It says it now has over 17,000 independent contractors and 22,000 clients on its platform.
The Albanese Government’s “Secure Jobs, Better Pay” industrial relations bill passed the House of Representatives last Thursday and now heads to the Senate.
Who remembers when one wage supported a family of 4 living in their own yes their own suburban home. Work today is rapidly being redefined so as not to be defined seen as modern-day slavery. So much so a family of 4 is increasingly in debt and can’t any longer support themselves on 2 wages in some cases more. Who no longer will ever dream of owning their own home and needing to work 2 or 3 jobs without benefits. We are redefining their circumstance as the new “norm” and not slavery.
Workers are taking advantage of the competitive labour market to make some extra cash, with 900,000 people working two or more jobs.
Bargaining deal struck ahead of summit – Michael West
The peak body for unions and small business representatives have struck a deal on workplace reform ahead of the federal government’s jobs and skills summit.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions and Council of Small Businesses Australia (COSBOA) have agreed to work together to simplify and reduce complexities within the current industrial relations system.
This includes a pledge to support new options for collective bargaining, proposed by the ACTU last week, which would enable multiple workplaces to work together to strike deals with employees.
Supporting a simpler form of the “better off overall test” in fair work laws is also part of the agreement.
“(The system) is just not delivering that strong responsible sustainable wages growth that we need to see, which has been absent from our economy for the best of the decade,” he told ABC Radio on Thursday.“
We’re not naive about this issue being contentious.”
Dr Chalmers said working Australians had gone backwards under the current enterprise bargaining system while businesses were recording large profits.
Recently released Australian Bureau of Statistics data for the June quarter showed pay packets were falling behind the rising cost of living.
The business community has broadly opposed the multi-employer bargaining proposal.
The working class in capitalism is not a coherent class but a fragmented one — an amalgam of individuals trying to survive. It’ll take politics to change that.
Years of flatlined wages and now a request for more? The well off haven’t faced this and have seen a rise in their income. So why are the Economists voting for those the worst off to carry the load yet again? The threat do you want to keep your job? Well, we saw the increasing precariousness of work and now it’s being asked even more needs to be done. It’s a threat that we’ve seen repeatedly with a variety of excuses over and over again (ODT)
The need to unionize against the modern slavery of piece work and piece jobs without benefits. (ODT)
The growth in secondary jobs has not just been confined to professionals. The economy experienced its strongest secondary jobs surge since June 2014 last year – driving the number of people with two jobs to 891,000, up from 779,000 in 2010.
More than 50,000 were added between March and September 2017 alone, according to Tuesday’s figures, which for the first time showed the volatile growth in secondary jobs by industry on a quarterly basis
Online business-to-business marketplace Expert Market has put together a ranking of the global cities where people have the best balance between their work and leisure time — the so-called “work-life balance.” Using data from Swiss banking group UBS, the site compiled information on the biggest, most important cities globally, taking into account how many hours per week and per year people work as well as how many days holiday they take, before creating the ranking.
I think we would all agree that work is a good thing. I have practiced it all of my life. To a substantial degree it formed a large part of who I became. I was diligent and loyal to whoever employed me. I always demanded a rewarding salary commensurate with what I thought my abilities…
Online business-to-business marketplace Expert Market has put together a ranking of the global cities where people have the best balance between their work and leisure time — the so-called “work-life balance.” Using data from Swiss banking group UBS, the site compiled information on the biggest, most important cities globally, taking into account how many hours per week and per year people work as well as how many days holiday they take, before creating the ranking.
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