Plant dispute 'threatens energy supply'
Deepening pay stoush could put the grid under pressure heading into summer.
Workplace Reporter for The Age
Deepening pay stoush could put the grid under pressure heading into summer.
Well-known pubs have turned off their Carlton Draught and VB taps and removed many other popular beers from sale as they join a growing, union-led boycott of the brewery.
More Australians than ever before are regularly working from home in their main job, with the top reason being the need to catch up on unfinished work.
Police have launched an investigation into an early-morning attack outside Melbourne's biggest brewery, in another sign that a union-led picket line over sacked maintenance workers has turned hostile.
Low-paid childcare educators across the nation will converge in Canberra next week to fight for a major investment of federal funds into their wages.
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 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.
Hundreds of staff at the ABC will vote on launching industrial action for the first time in 10 years.
Children in daycare centres will be sent home early on Thursday, as some of the sector's 80,000 mostly female staff strike.
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.
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