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Where to from here for the anti-Fair Work Act campaign?

The day after the Coalition released its' workplace relations policy, including to keep the Fair Work Act more or less in tact, Matt Cowgill from the ACTU has done some great analysis of opposition to, and results of, the Fair Work Act. Most fascinating for me was the graph of the "Days lost to industrial disputes" since 1987... it's a very different world we live in today, regardless of whether the coalition or Labor are in government.

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Gender imbalances in Underemployment, Australia

Underemployment is often referred to as a type of "hidden unemployment" - workers who are being paid for one or more hours in a period are considered "employed", but the reality is that some of these workers would like to be working more hours.  Doing some analysis on the Australian Bureau of Statistic's latest underemployment survey yielded an interesting insight... Women are hugely over-represented in underemployment statistics in almost every industry.

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