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Job market for the young worse than recession
Almost one in five young people have fewer hours of work than they want, with underemployment in the youth labour force at its highest level in 40 years.
Almost one in five young people have fewer hours of work than they want, with underemployment in the youth labour force at its highest level in 40 years.
Every years millions of Australian workers miss out being paid their superannuation by their bosses. A federal inquiry is looking into why and how to stop it.
The once high-profile PR agency whose management played a part in former prime minister Kevin Rudd's high-profile "Kevin07" federal election campaign, failed to pay its staff superannuation, a federal inquiry has been told.
For eight years, the Zammit twins arrived at work an hour early so they could be home in time to pick their children up from school – freeing their working wives to get them off to school.
Extortion, blackmail, cash back scams and slavery are happening every day under our noses.
One of Australia's largest chicken processors plans to reduce wages for its contract labour by almost 40 per cent.
The executive responsible for managing $34 billion of investments in Westpac's wealth management business, Martyn Wild, left the company abruptly on Friday following a series of allegations about inappropriate behaviour towards two female staff.
A career spanning law, technology and entrepreneurship has helped develop leadership skills.
A new union of hairdressers is gearing up to fight a threatened clip to their weekend penalty rates, with Newcastle hairdresser Melanie Coombs saying they already get "paid peanuts".
Predictive text is supposed to be one of those nannying helper apps designed apparently to make life easier for us.
Working with ancient mummies and skeletons is more than just a curiosity.
A mental health expert is behind a health app for taxi drivers to test drive.
Volunteers play a vital role in keeping boat users safe in the water.
Helping boys become men is a big job, but somebody has to do it.
Open-mindedness is widely considered a good attribute in a person, particularly at work. But is your open mind leaving you vulnerable to the entreaties of scroungers and buffoons?
Workplace dilemma? We ask an expert for some help.
If you're going to invoke a principle with as glorious a heritage as one used by Martin Luther King you should pick the right fights and get your facts straight.
The tax man should be undertaking random audits of employers to help identify potentially $5.6 billion worth of unpaid superannuation owed to almost 2.8 million Australians, according to Industry Super Australia.
High profile Federal Court case against CFMEU thrown out.
The employment safety net needs a wide-ranging overhaul and minimum rates of pay should be cut in order to help solve youth unemployment, says former Fair Work Commission vice-president Graeme Watson.
Call it the Amber effect. In the months since the former Seven staffer went public, the floodgates have opened.
Salary disclosure would cause stress to the public service's industrial enforcers.
Up to 100 more public servants to be axed at troubled agency.
The federal ALP, Greens and independent senator Jacqui Lambie will introduce a bill on Tuesday to invalidate the Fair Work Commission's decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates.
Aviation workers are sleeping on makeshift beds amid squalid conditions in the bowels of Sydney International Airport while they wait for their next shift.
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus has admitted she made an error when she accused building company Grocon of 'killing workers'.
A long-running pay battle that shut down a Parmalat dairy processing plant in northern Victoria for two months has been resolved.
Westpac has become the latest company subject to sexual misconduct allegations following a number of complaints by two female staff.
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.
Australia has one of the highest levels of part-time work anywhere in the OECD.
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