Call for interim minimum wage increase rejected
The Fair Work Commission has rejected an application from unions for a medium-term target to be set for the national minimum wage.
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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.
The NSW university that has underpaid staff millions of dollars
A NSW university has discovered it has underpaid staff their superannuation entitlements since 2009.
Colleagues shocked at promotion at eight months pregnant
Anna Green was no less ambitious than her male colleagues. But she remembers people being surprised when she was promoted to the position of partner at a global consulting firm.
The jobs that will give you the biggest pay rise
Hone your computer skills: Finance and IT professionals can expect the highest salary increases this year as wages across the board stagnate.
Who you work with matters more than your pay: happiness survey
The freedom you have to do your job and the support you get from colleagues and bosses is more likely to make you happy than your pay packet, a new study has found.
Hair, beauty salons audited for workplace breaches
About 1600 hair and beauty salons will be randomly audited over the next 12 months.
Ten Fair Work offices retire months after qualifying for pension
Ten former Fair Work Commission members, including outspoken critic Graeme Watson, retired early within months of qualifying for a full pension at the age of 60.
Fair Work watchdog raids more than 80 businesses
Fair Work inspectors have raided more than 80 businesses in NSW in response to complaints of rampant underpayment of young workers.
'It's scary' - why rungs are disappearing on the wage ladder
There is more to income inequality than the famed 1 per cent versus the 99 per cent or standing chief executive officers next to average workers.
Turnbull government warns against 'excessive' minimum wage rise
Government says increasing the minimum wage is "not an efficient way to address relative living standards or the needs of the low-paid".
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