Dock spat strands Christmas deliveries
Millions of dollars worth of goods are stranded at the Port of Melbourne, caught up in an escalating dispute between the maritime union and the owners of the first fully automated terminal.
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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.
NSW Labor commits to extending paid domestic violence leave to 10 days
NSW Labor has committed to extending its paid domestic violence leave policy to 10 days in response to pressure from union delegates at its party conference earlier this year.
Hearing date set for super union merger
The Fair Work Commission will conduct a hearing in early February to decide if the national construction and maritime unions can merge, giving the federal government little time to block the new super union.
Businesses warned over 'illegal' sponsorship of family picnic days
Businesses have been warned it could be illegal for them to sponsor the donkey ride, sausage sizzle, climbing wall, children's face painting, the petting zoo or toy train at a family picnic day organised by trade unions.
'We can't be complacent': the jobs problem facing millennials
Close to one in five unemployed young people have been out of work for at least a year despite trying just as hard as older jobseekers to find employment.
Little has changed inside the ordinary workplace
High-profile cases have attracted massive public attention but not much has changed inside the average Australian office.
Health workers win full long service leave entitlements
Thousands NSW Health workers including former employees who have worked as casuals have won the right to include that time towards their long service leave entitlements for the first time.
'Basis for divorce' - super union won't pay CFMEU's fines
The prenuptial agreement governing the marriage of the nation's militant construction and maritime unions will preclude the sharing of legacy multimillion dollar legal fines that may eventuate from the building union's court battles.
New class action for underpaid workers aims to recover more than $100 million
A national class action will be launched on behalf of thousands of Australians who have been allegedly paid well below the legal minimum wage for door-to-door sales and charity fundraising.
Fresh meat: Migrant staff crowding in where local kids can't get a job
How the company behind your supermarket meat churns foreign workers to keep costs down. A Herald investigation.
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