Beer sackings spark push for national inquiry

Corporate tactics to exploit legal loopholes and undercut minimum pay and conditions could come under fresh political scrutiny, with support for a wide-ranging Senate inquiry gaining momentum.

Thousands rally in Melbourne for sacked beer workers

Thousands have converged on central Melbourne – marching the length of the CBD and blocking traffic at several key intersections – to support the sacked workers from the city's biggest brewery.

ABC staff to vote on first strikes in a decade

Hundreds of staff at the ABC will vote on launching industrial action for the first time in 10 years.

Gender pay strikes to shut childcare centres

Children in daycare centres will be sent home early on Thursday, as some of the sector's 80,000 mostly female staff strike.

'A disturbing picture of youth employment'

A survey of hundreds of young Australians has found high levels of distress at the way they are treated in the workplace, and uncovered rampant claims of underpayment and exploitation.

Foreign staff 'not exempt' from visa requirements, minimum pay in offshore work

Foreign workers on vessels operating in the booming offshore resources industry will now be required to obtain visas and receive minimum pay and conditions, after the High Court ruled against the Turnbull government.

Brewery workers withdrawn from CUB amid safety fears

A major labour hire company providing fill-in workers to Carlton and United after the sacking of a brewery's entire maintenance crew has now cut ties with the beer giant.

Fears over rise in migrant workers killed, injured in industrial accidents

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Documents obtained by Fairfax Media expose rising concerns from top job safety officials.

CUB Brewery staff stop work as sacking fight froths over

Hundreds of workers at Carlton and United's biggest brewery will walk off on Thursday, and have raised the threat of further strikes against the beer giant.