Workplace Reporter for The Age
Up to 10,000 Australians with intellectual disabilities, who worked for as little as 99 cents an hour, will share in a massive $100 million federal government payout after a landmark discrimination lawsuit.
Workers at Victoria's largest energy plant have agreed to abandon strikes after the Andrews government intervened in a bitter dispute with power giant AGL.
Shipping giant Toll has been convicted and fined a record $1 million for safety failures after a father-of-three was crushed and killed on Melbourne's wharves.
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
One in four Australian workers who checked their pay through a union-run online wage calculator found out they were being ripped off, with staff in the restaurant business the worst-affected.
Unions may be forced to dramatically lift their insurance coverage in the wake of the Turnbull government's latest legislation that increases their liability and blows out penalties for legal breaches.
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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