Grocon not responsible for 'killing workers' - ACTU secretary
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus has admitted she made an error when she accused building company Grocon of 'killing workers'.
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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.
Parmalat dairy plant industrial dispute is over
A long-running pay battle that shut down a Parmalat dairy processing plant in northern Victoria for two months has been resolved.
Fines of up to $4.5 million, 10 years jail for corrupt payments to unions
Employers and union officials now face up to ten years' jail and companies will be fined as much as $4.5 million if they give or receive secret payments designed to corrupt a union official.
Underemployment skyrockets to 1.1 million Australians
Australia has one of the highest levels of part-time work anywhere in the OECD.
Energy company offers to make all jobs flexible
David Provan does his full-time job which is based in Sydney from his home in Melbourne.
'Manifestly untrue' - Grocon blasts ACTU boss
Building company Grocon has demanded ACTU secretary Sally McManus correct her "manifestly untrue" statement that it was fined $300,000 for killing five workers.
Unions, Labor split over ACTU 'law-breaking' call
The labour movement has split in the wake of controversial comments from the ACTU's newly minted secretary Sally McManus defending law-breaking industrial behaviour that has sparked a furious government attack on the Opposition.
'I no longer need to hide my disability from the boss'
As a housekeeper, Teremoana Tangata hid her disability from her boss to protect her job.
Sham contracting is going white collar
Employers are now treating white-collar workers, including receptionists in doctors' surgeries, like independent contractors to avoid paying them their entitlements, a Senate inquiry has heard.
!["When [the law] is unjust, I don't think there's a problem with breaking it": ACTU secretary Sally McManus.](/web/20170320085135im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/p/8/q/x/image.related.landscape.120x80.guwyb4.png/1489697410218.jpg)
Sally McManus becomes the first female ACTU secretary
The sacking of her school teacher among thousands of others was the first sign that Sally McManus' calling would be in the union movement.
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