Workplace Relations

Underpaid.

Sold out: quarter of a million workers underpaid in union deals

Australian workers in retail and fast-food outlets, including Woolworths, Hungry Jack's and KFC, are being underpaid more than $300 million a year, in a national wages scandal centred on deals struck with the shop assistants union.

Dairy farmer Greg Dennis is using robots to aid with milking, which has allowed a redistribution of labour to other areas.

Rise of the machines

With the stuff of science fiction increasingly a reality, some careers are at risk of being usurped by an artificial intelligence.