annual leave, Board decisions, CEO, Health and safety, Offshoring jobs, Redundancies, rostering, salary and bonuses, wages, Working conditions, workplace, Workplace Issues
Q. How much say should employees have in the following issues in their workplace?
Total a lot/
some say |
A lot of say | Some say | A little say | No say at all | Don’t know | |
Health and safety | 90% | 63% | 27% | 7% | 2% | 1% |
Working conditions | 88% | 55% | 33% | 8% | 2% | 1% |
When they can take annual leave | 86% | 42% | 44% | 11% | 2% | 2% |
Hours of work and rostering | 77% | 26% | 51% | 19% | 3% | 2% |
Wages | 76% | 24% | 52% | 18% | 4% | 2% |
Offshoring jobs (i.e. transferring jobs to another country) | 66% | 37% | 29% | 18% | 12% | 4% |
Redundancies | 65% | 24% | 41% | 21% | 11% | 3% |
CEO salary and bonuses | 59% | 29% | 30% | 18% | 20% | 3% |
Board decisions | 44% | 16% | 28% | 29% | 22% | 4% |
A majority of respondents think employees should have a lot or some say in all workplace issues listed except for board decisions.
63% think employees should have a lot of say in health and safety, 55% in working conditions, 42% in annual leave and 37% in offshoring jobs.
Those on lower incomes (under $1,000pw) were more likely to think employees should have a lot of say in off-shoring jobs (45%) and CEO salary and bonuses (35%).