Do your holidays always feel too short? Or are you a parent struggling to juggle the demands of school holidays with the leave you’re allowed to take?
On Wednesday, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) launched a major push to give working Australians the right to an extra week of annual leave.
The peak union body says rising work pressures and long hours of extra unpaid work simply aren’t accounted for in the current minimum entitlement to four weeks – which hasn’t changed in about five decades.
