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.
Reversal of the Fair Work Commission's decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates in industries including the hospitality and retail sectors could lead to industrial "chaos" and reduce wages to a political "plaything" experts warn.
Kirralee Brisbane was always paid a commission for her work fitting hearing aids, but her clients will soon have a say over the size of her pay packet.
Like a theme song for his new commission to catch unions and employer groups involved in corruption, Mark Bielecki's mobile phone went off to the guitar strums of George Thoroughgood's Bad to the Bone.
A constant flow of unpaid interns provide free accounting and finance work for businesses, raising questions about whether Fair Work laws need to be tightened.
Australia's largest privately owned cold storage company has been stopped from transferring workers to a new labour-hire company to avoid negotiating a new enterprise agreement.
From the age of nine, when his dad first plonked him on the back of a small calf, Mitchell Gajkowski loved rodeo life. His dreams of a career as a bull rider were crushed when he was thrown from a bucking bull aged 19, leaving him in need of full-time care.
The level of compensation paid out highlights failures in Australia's employment law system to keep wage theft in check.
Just 9.9 cents out of each dollar in new GDP created over the last year reportedly went into labour income.
The introduction of company director identification numbers to help prevent the deliberate liquidation of companies to avoid paying workers' entitlements and tax is being considered by the federal government.
Big business has backed a Labor Party push for new laws to force major Australian companies to report on modern slavery in their supply chains.
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