Senator the Hon Murray Watt
- Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
Senator the Hon Murray Watt was sworn in as Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations on 29 July 2024.
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New Chair for Safe Work Australia
Coal mining industry leader Mr Tony Maher has been appointed as the new Chair of Safe Work Australia.
Small claims procedure review released
The Albanese Government is continuing to ensure workers are getting paid what they are entitled to with the completion of the…
Interview with Ron Wilson - 2SM Breakfast
Subjects: Albanese Government's Same Job Same Pay changes
Interview with Dales Whyte, 4RO Breakfast
SUBJECTS: The Albanese Government’s record $2 billion investment in the Australian-made aluminium industry; Nuclear; Wage theft.
Same Job Same Pay growing wages for Australian workers
The Albanese Labor Government’s landmark Same Job Same Pay changes are delivering significant wage rises for workers across the economy, by making sure those working as labour hire are not paid…
Lowest average unemployment in half a century under Labor
Today’s jobs figures show the Albanese Government has the lowest average unemployment of any government in fifty years at the same time as inflation is down and wages are up.
Press conference - Brisbane
SUBJECTS: Jobs data, Bruce Highway funding, Middle East ceasefire, inflation, estimates of the NAIRU, Whyalla job losses, Queensland crime, superannuation.
Interview with Jeremy Jones, ABC Capricornia Breakfast
SUBJECTS: Pay rises for workers; Same Job, Same Pay; labour hire workers; cost of living; federal election.
Interview with Cathy Van Extel, ABC RN Breakfast
Subjects: happy new year to all Australians, engineered stone import ban, making wage theft illegal, Peter Dutton's opposition to increase wages, Peter Dutton's opposition to important cost-of-living…
Thank you drivers this holiday season
Rideshare and taxi drivers will be working around the clock this holiday season to keep Australians safe and get them where they need to go.
Australians now have the right to disconnect from work this festive period
This summer, for the first time, eligible employees in Australia have a right to disconnect and take their festive break without the pressure of responding to unreasonable contact from their boss…
Press conference, Brisbane
Subjects: treating workers with respect this Christmas; customer aggression towards retail workers; Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear energy fantasy, MYEFO; 1 million new jobs in Australia; Kyiv…