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Tabcorp's $11b merger with Tatts Group gets green light
Australian gambling giant Tabcorp's $11 billion merger bid with Tatts Group has been approved.
Workplace Reporter for The Age
Australian gambling giant Tabcorp's $11 billion merger bid with Tatts Group has been approved.
Disgraced former unionist Kathy Jackson is now facing more than 160 criminal theft and fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Health Services Union.
Big building sites across the country will be forced to shut down next week, as members of the powerful construction union gear up for a national day of action against the Turnbull government's tough new laws.
Telstra is set to cut up 1400 jobs as the telco looks to cut costs.
Investors will be left waiting up to three months to find out if a proposed mega-merger of two of Australia's biggest gambling companies will get the green light.
Australia's lowest-paid workers will get a $22-a-week pay rise after the workplace umpire lifted the national minimum wage to $694.90.
Landmark cuts to weekend penalty rates in several industries will be phased in over four years.
Australia's biggest builders are in danger of being banned from federal government-funded construction work within 90 days because their union-friendly agreements are in breach of tough new rules.
The US owners of hugely popular blogging platform WordPress.com are defying an Australian court.
Victoria's powerful construction union has suffered a major blow in a landmark court ruling.
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