Proposed laws 'unlikely' to stamp out exploitation of underpaid workers
Outlawing employer requests for cash back from employees and higher penalties will fail to stamp out exploitation, a leading migration labour lawyer has warned.
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Anna Patty
Anna Patty is Workplace Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a former Education Editor, State Political Reporter and Health Reporter. Her reports on inequity in schools funding led to the Gonski reforms and won her national awards. Her coverage of health exposed unnecessary patient deaths at Campbelltown Hospital and led to judicial and parliamentary inquiries. At The Times of London, she exposed flaws in international medical trials.
Fast food 457 visa ban unlikely to alleviate youth unemployment
The decision to stop fast food businesses hiring overseas workers on 457 visas has been welcomed but will do little to alleviate high youth unemployment, academics and unions warn.
More women managers result in higher pay for men
The gender pay gap women widens when women hold most of the top management jobs.
ASIC closes investigation into super fund data leak
One of Australia's biggest industry superannuation funds, Cbus, is clear of further scrutiny from the securities regulator over its leaking of members' personal information to a trade union.
Wollongong students being repaid after being shortchanged on wages
Lucy Vance is among University of Wollongong students being repaid by restaurants and cafes after they were each short-changed hundreds of dollars in wages.
Fair Work Commission deputy issues his last judgement
Fair Work Commission Vice President Graeme Watson has broken with tradition by issuing his own separate decision on the future of paid domestic violence leave ahead of a single majority decision being made.
How prepared are university students for the jobs of the future?
University of Sydney aeronautical engineering student Caroline Hamilton Smith loves measuring rocket trajectories.
Women to bear the brunt of cuts to penalty rates
Single mother Sharon Eurlings has worked Sunday shifts for more than 20 years to help pay the bills and get care for her children.
'Not balanced or fair': restaurant owners miss out on penalty rate cut
"If the business doesn't grow, how are we going to employ more people?" asks restaurateur Mohammad Bhuiya after restaurants were excluded from the Sunday penalty rate cut.
'Bad day for working Australians': Sunday penalty rates slashed
Hundreds of thousands of Australians who work on Sundays will have their take-home pay reduced after a landmark ruling by the national workplace umpire.
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