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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.

Kasun Rajapaksha and his wife Sandeepani Warnakulasooriya say they have "lost some of the best years of our lives to ...

Caretakers claim $700K in unpaid wages

A couple who were on call overnight as residential caretakers at a UniLodge student accommodation block of units allegedly received just $108 in net pay for a year's work after rent was deducted from their combined salary.

'Things could get a lot harder for people like me and my workmates': Kay Rault outside the Fair Work Commission in Sydney

Spitting chips: potato giant accused of 'wage theft'

Australia's biggest potato grower is leading a national horticulture industry push to pay employees like Kay Rault who work in packing and storage sheds located off farm sites the same rates as lower-paid farm workers.

Hospitality penalty rates are to be cut.

Penalty rate ploy could bring 'chaos'

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.