”The Week on Wednesday” with Van Badham & Ben Davison
News:Politics
Van Badham joins Ben Davison to discuss the issues that the October Budget has highlighted, how Insiders dealt with those issues and what is really happening with the Secure Jobs, Better Pay laws.
With 29 of 33 OECD nations in structural deficit the issue of how we invest in our commonwealth, how we generate revenue from our productivity and resources and who benefits from that is front and centre of debate in Australia and around the world.
Ben and Van breakdown the Secure Jobs, Better Pay bill. They look at the faux friend big business is pretending to be for workers and small business on bargaining while also highlighting some of the less discussed improvements for contract based workers, people with caring responsibilities and the improved powers of the umpire to get agreements done.
And there is a shout out for the Australian Unions victory on paid family violence leave. It is now law that every worker can access 10 days paid leave if experiencing family violence and that comes after more than a decade of campaigning by the union movement. So join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow to help win the secure jobs and better pay that we are campaigning for now.
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