Business criticises Labor's portable long-service leave plan
A landmark plan to allow tens of thousands of workers to transfer their long-service leave entitlements from one employer to the next has been set in motion.
Workplace Relations
That's a promise: public service won't rip off workers
'Undertakings' given to industrial umpire after PS workplace deals fail basic fairness test.
The skills kids need to get a job in 2030
Rachel Lilley is teaching children how to prepare for an uncertain jobs future.
ABC staffer loses High Court bullying case
Judges messed-up by applying common sense, High Court finds.
Public servants 'dragged along the road and kicked in the guts'
Rank-and-file public servants vent their fury after three years of industrial strife.
New footage shows chuggers in 'cock fight'
New footage has emerged of Appco "chuggers" taking part in a "cock fight", a bizarre weekly ritual which involved sales staff pecking at each other as punishment for poor performance.
SPC Ardmona staff fear 'huge job losses'
Workers at struggling food producer SPC Ardmona have warned of "economic devastation" across the Goulburn Valley if supermarket giant Woolworths dumps its canned fruit-sourcing arrangements.
Hotel cleaners get $2m pay upgrade after watchdog probes 5-star chain
More than 1500 hotel cleaners who had their pay docked to pay for uniforms, insurance, chemicals and equipment will share almost $2million in back pay after the Ombudsman stepped in.
Buoying wellbeing in cancer care
Geraldine McDonald is taking patient care to the next level.
Blackmail case to proceed against CFMEU leaders
The leaders of Victoria's largest building union will ask the Supreme Court to rule their blackmail charges "inadmissable", after a magistrate rejected a bid to quash the police case.
69 public service no-votes but women are the real losers
"Decreased entitlements for employees with a proportionately negative impact on female employees."
Border Force bosses score $6400 pay rise
Top senior executive pay goes to $326,400 as three-year dispute rumbles on.
Union official charged with assault at brewery picket line
A union official manning the picket line outside Carlton & United Breweries has been charged with assault, as a hostile feud over job losses hits 150 days.
'We blindly sped ahead': Chairman cuts salary to 19¢ amid cash crunch
The billionaire chairman of China's LeEco has admitted his technology empire is running out of cash to sustain a headlong rush into businesses from electric cars to smartphones.
Cash and Lloyd needed a win, they copped a belting
Government now battling to remain in control of public service workplace wars.
Big bang theories
An innovative program is giving students and teachers a rare opportunity to learn from Australia's best nuclear scientists.
Opportunities in film and video production
There are jobs at the intersection of art and commerce.
You had one Jobs. Now find new way to do your product launches
The stage walk. The adoring fans below. The reference to a slide 'deck'. Surely now that Steve Jobs has passed we can stop borrowing from his presentation style.
Grab every chance at work
Spotting the right path in your career is essential.
Anti-Muslim remarks 'less serious' if not directed at particular person
Mining giant BHP has been told to reinstate a truck driver sacked for expressing anti-Muslim views.
'Arbitration may be a lengthy process': Immigration votes no
Immigration Department dispute will go to arbitration after crushing no-vote.
Sushi chain donates $10,000 to avoid legal action over false pay records
A sushi restaurant chain has made a $10,000 donation to avoid legal action for producing false pay records during a Fair Work Ombudsman audit.
High flyer at a young age
Coaching trapeze routines is an amazing job for anyone, let alone a teenager.
Human element makes migration work rewarding
Cathrine Burnett-Wake happily describes herself as an immigration geek.
Facebook trawl for compo investigation 'illegal', claims lawyer
As a former senior police inspector investigating crime, Greg was devastated to be the subject of surveillance after he made an insurance claim for a workplace injury.
Why we need real-time performance management
There is a growing crowd who understand that the old formal stand-alone review system is not ideal.
Tax Office tries to 'crush' whistleblower with $88,000 legal bill
'I spend every day worrying about the ATO's next reprisal.'
It won't be so easy to become a real estate agent next year
The government has revealed its plan to make it harder to become a real estate agent, to the cheers of the property industry.
'I've employed a lot of those exploited people'
John Ibrahim knows the Caltex franchise business better than most. He also knows that underpayment of wages is getting worse.
Big corporates promise to give more work to female barristers
Big corporates Telstra, Woolworths, Westpac and 11 top-tier law firms have signed an agreement to hire more female barristers to improve gender equity in the profession.