Emails shed light on Nigel Hadgkiss' conduct
Fair Work inspectors were ordered to withhold information about new provisions for unions.
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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.
Fears new low-skilled visa will be open to abuse
Just months after announcing changes to the skilled migration visa system to "put Australian jobs first", the federal government faces criticism for creating a new three-year pathway to low-skilled migration.
Businesses failing to tackle domestic violence issue
Most Australian workplaces are failing to train managers in how to detect and help domestic violence victims, despite saying they are committed to dealing with the issue, new research has found.
Caltex caned as servos slapped on pay
Fuel giant Caltex is likely to face "enforcement action" from the workplace watchdog as the entire industry was put on notice to clean up persistent issues of underpayment for vulnerable workers.
Union officials urged unlawful strike
The Federal Court has found that union officials coerced workers into unlawful strikes in 2014.
Australia's workers are becoming 'Americanised', says ACTU
Australians face growing wage inequality and the threat of an American work culture of longer hours, low wages and poor job security, the peak labour organisation has warned.
'Gentler, flexible': Women outnumber men in dentistry for first time
Sabrina Manickam and Susan Wise are among a growing number of women who have taken to the dental profession in recent decades.
'I didn't tell them that I was pregnant': Call to scrap maternity loophole
A legal exemption that allows employers to refuse to hire, or to fire, someone who knew they were pregnant when they applied for the job is being targeted for abolition.
Majority of Sydney University staff reject offer to vote on salary agreement
A majority of University of Sydney staff have voted against taking part in a formal vote on the university management's pay and conditions offer.
'Hostile and disrespectful': staff union in spat with Sydney Uni
The University of Sydney vice chancellor has circumvented the staff union by writing to its members directly and asking them to informally vote on an enterprise agreement the union has advised them to reject.
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