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%).