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Security guards paid cash in hand: claims spread to WA Art Gallery
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Staff at the Art Gallery of Western Australia are alleging some guards are illegally being paid cash in hand, and security standards at the gallery are lax.
Topics: visual-art, work, law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000
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Australian govt has no tolerance for abuse of Pacific seasonal workers Audio
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The Australian government says it doesn't tolerate mistreatment of workers brought into the country from the Pacific under the seasonal workers program.
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How leading employers are hiring and promoting for diversity
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While diversity might be the buzzword in recruitment circles, eradicating biases in the workplace and making employees from diverse backgrounds feel comfortable are still challenges.
Topics: management, banking, industry, business-economics-and-finance, work, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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From unemployment to small business owner
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Pauline Rumley considers it a blessing in disguise that she was laid off from her job at a mining company four years ago — with the Perth woman among a growing number of West Australians taking their job into their own hands.
Topics: work, small-business, perth-6000, wa
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Mining lobby chief threatened with 'banishment' from Kalgoorlie-Boulder
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A former Kalgoorlie-Boulder Nationals candidate claims a campaign by WA's peak mining lobby promoting fly-in fly-out work practices is threatening the city's future.
Topics: work, mining-rural, government-and-politics, elections, nationals, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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Opposition, crossbench senators back bill to block penalty rates cut
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Labor scores a win on penalty rates after crossbench senators change their minds and vote to block the cuts.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, turnbull-malcolm, bill-shorten, work, australia
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Katie K in the Elizabeth Street Mall image
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Katie K in the Elizabeth Street Mall
Topics: work, hobart-7000
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Kris Macintosh
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Kris Macintosh washing a window image
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Kris Macintosh washing a window
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Dom Fowler with his dog image
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Dom Fowler with his dog
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Dom Fowler building a deck image
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Dom Fowler building a deck
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Why I ditched the office to work outdoors in the city
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Working outdoors is not just for those on farms or out in the bush. Meet four city workers who have replaced the office ceiling with the sky.
Topics: work, people, community-and-society, hobart-7000
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Super overhaul could mean you don't need multiple accounts
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Australian workers who end up with multiple default superannuation funds could be winners from a simpler more streamlined system being proposed by the Productivity Commission.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, superannuation, work, australia
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Government offers few penalty rates recommendations
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The Federal Government offers few recommendations in its submission to the Fair Work Commission on Sunday penalty rates.
Topics: government-and-politics, hospitality, business-economics-and-finance, food-and-beverage, retail, work, australia
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Mawson Base plumber Shane Bilston wields ice pick image
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Topics: earth-sciences, lifestyle-and-leisure, work, environment, broome-6725, antarctica
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The Grogan family is making the most of time together image
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Topics: family, work, timber, heyfield-3858
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Kurt Pritchett is a forklift driver at the Australian Sustainable Hardwoods mill image
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Topics: building-and-construction, family, work, timber, heyfield-3858
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Heyfield locals fearful about future of their timber town
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The country's biggest hardwood sawmill is set to close next year, and people from the timber town of Heyfield are concerned about what that will mean for them.
Topics: timber, regional, community-development, work, heyfield-3858
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Chemotherapy doctor settles unfair dismissal case
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Oncologist John Grygiel, who gave more than 100 patients incorrect doses of chemotherapy drugs, settles an unfair dismissal case with Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, cancer, work, health, sydney-2000, darlinghurst-2010
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Pet taxi driver has the pawfect job
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Covered in fur, scooping up poo and never happier. Working as a pet taxi driver provides plenty of challenges but plenty of cute, adorable clients to cuddle too.
Topics: animals, people, work, offbeat, careers, hobart-7000
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National Gallery of Victoria security contract torn up after wage scandal
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The Victorian Government has torn up its contract with the company responsible for security at the National Gallery of Victoria over allegations that it underpaid guards.
Topics: work, library-museum-and-gallery, unions, business-economics-and-finance, melbourne-3000
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Security guard cash in hand scandal widens to La Trobe University
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Guards from Melbourne's La Trobe University are alleging security staff who work in the car parks are being paid as little as $12 an hour in cash.
Topics: work, community-and-society, state-parliament, government-and-politics, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, melbourne-3000, southbank-3006, vic, australia
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Airport staff on split shifts 'sleeping under terminals'
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Staff at one of Australia's busiest airports have been setting up camp and sleeping at work, which they say is because they cannot afford to go home between shifts.
Topics: work, unions, sydney-international-airport-2020
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Queensland town can't find Australians for work
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Business operators in Longreach in central west Queensland say they are being forced to look overseas to fill staff positions, after placing numerous ads in local media.
Topics: unemployment, work, immigration, longreach-4730
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