Victorian schools clean up on workers
In the cutthroat world of contract cleaning in government schools a vulnerable workforce is paying the price.
Workplace Reporter for The Age
In the cutthroat world of contract cleaning in government schools a vulnerable workforce is paying the price.
Hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers would get protection from being underpaid, under a push for reforms to plug loopholes that are being exploited by big companies such as McDonald's and KFC
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A bitter year long dispute has been brought to a close thanks to a new pay offer.
ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has described Donald Trump's shock US election win as a "bruising experience for women everywhere".
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.
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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.
Australia's biggest supermarket is taking SPC Ardmona's tinned tomatoes off its shelves after cutting a deal with a new South Australian supplier for the canned commodity.
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