Lifting bins, breaking barriers, but Jennifer is a bolter
When she first started work as a garbage collector, Jennifer Khan, 65, ignored the advice of friends and co-workers who feared she would not keep up with the boys.
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.
When she first started work as a garbage collector, Jennifer Khan, 65, ignored the advice of friends and co-workers who feared she would not keep up with the boys.
Former union boss Jim Metcher has announced his retirement as a legal investigation finds he had a duty to disclose a domestic violence matter in his applications for right of entry permits in 2009 and 2010.
Outlawing employer requests for cash back from employees and higher penalties will fail to stamp out exploitation, a leading migration labour lawyer has warned.
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.
The gender pay gap women widens when women hold most of the top management jobs.
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.
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 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.
University of Sydney aeronautical engineering student Caroline Hamilton Smith loves measuring rocket trajectories.
Single mother Sharon Eurlings has worked Sunday shifts for more than 20 years to help pay the bills and get care for her children.
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