Media releases

Following revelations that the ACT Government’s major outsourcing project (Total Facilities Management) is unaffordable, unions are calling on the government to consider insourcing services, including direct employment. The “asset management” services within “Total Facilities Management” include maintenance and cleaning services, which are industries characterised by insecure, casualised jobs, and low wages. The experience of 30

Unions in Canberra today welcome the start of stakeholder consultations for the Secure Local Jobs Package, said UnionsACT. The package was a key election commitment made in 2016 to ensure

The Fair Work Ombudsman today has confirmed that lawbreaking by employers in the ACT is widespread, with 40 percent of audited businesses failing to meet their workplace legal obligations after

UnionsACT has today called for workers and employers to increase their vigilance about working in heat as the ACT faces the start of heat-wave season. The union peak body also

UnionsACT has today called for the smart meter roll-out in the ACT to be halted and reviewed. The new smart meter policy became operational on 1 December 2017. The policy

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation ACT Branch has today announced that long-standing branch secretary Jenny Miragaya will retire effective 1 December 2017. The following quotes are attributable to Alex

A new report released yesterday by UNSW and UTS academics Laurie Berg and Bassina Farbenblum confirm that wage-theft against migrant workers and international students is widespread in Canberra. The report,

The new proposed fatality compensation is manifestly inadequate given that the ACT remains the second most dangerous state in Australia. The ACT Government tabled a Bill last week to increase

The most recent comparative safety report by Safe Work Australia confirms that the ACT is again the second least safe jurisdiction in Australia to work. Rates of serious injury in