Economic

07/06/2026

FWC lifts the wage floor to $26.44: what it means for your July payslip

From 1 July, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) lifted Australia's National Minimum Wage to $26.44 an hour, pushing the weekly minimum above $1,004.90 for a standard 38-hour week. If you work in retail, hospitality, aged care, or any award-covered ...

07/06/2026

5 min

Safe Work Australia's 35-week absence data puts manager capability on the board agenda

The Productivity Commission has put a dollar figure on something People and Culture teams have historically filed under soft skills: the way line managers handle distressed employees. Mental health issues cost the Australian economy up to A$200 ...

07/03/2026

6 min

Fair Work entitlements trades workers should verify before joining the $155bn data centre build

Australia's data centre pipeline is pegged at $155 billion, and the recruitment noise around it is loud. Before you sign anything, the more useful question is not about the size of the investment. It is about which categories of work survive past ...

07/03/2026

7 min

Shadow AI governance gap: AHRI and Privacy Act obligations put Australian HR on notice

The people writing your organisation's AI policy may be the same people quietly ignoring it. Survey data reported by HRD Australia shows C-suite leaders are nearly twice as likely as frontline staff to prioritise speed over AI security controls, ...

07/01/2026

6 min

ABS and FWC data show EBA pay rises of 4.1% deliver a slim real gain

New enterprise agreements approved under the Fair Work Commission (FWC) framework are now delivering average annualised pay rises of 4.1% in the private sector and 3.5% in the public sector, according to federal government data. On the surface, ...

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