Joining the dots of depression
Making meaning through work may improve mental health.
Workplace Relations
Your new year resolution is a sandcastle – kick it down and start again
Most people create new year resolutions so elaborate and ambitious that they’re bound to fail. Here’s a far better option.
Lived experience aids addiction support
Drug and alcohol workers often have their own stories.
Purpose-built school a labour of love
New school’s principal is tasked with a big undertaking.
Dreaming of retirement?
It may pay to rethink how leaving work actually looks.
Indigenous woman sacked after making racial discrimination complaint
The worker was described as going “walkabout”, told she was “quite pretty for an Aboriginal” and asked if she ever met a “real” Aboriginal person, she claimed.
HR must make abused staff feel safe
HR professionals must put allegiance to their organisation above loyalty to their boss.
Shares in Gloria Jeans owner dive as it warns on profit again
The embattled owner of the Donut King and Gloria Jeans brands has again lowered its profit guidance, only three weeks after warning investors of a weaker than expected first half.
'Class cluelessness' in Australia is not a white working class issue
Divisions within the working class in Britain and America have also emerged in Australia, but are more likely to be fuelled by stagnant wages growth
Changing the face of energy
SUMMER STORY Australia’s energy sector is undergoing the largest transition in its history, both in the makeup of the grid and the face of this change.
The best time of day - and year - to work most effectively
They say timing is everything. Yet when it comes to how we work, it's often not given much thought at all.
Leadership, tax cuts top business leaders' wish lists for 2018
Australia must remain a competitive investment destination, business leaders say, and for that we need tax cuts.
Iceland has mandated equal pay and Australia has to take note
Hats off to Iceland. On New Years Day the island nation became the first in the world to slap companies with fines if they pay a woman less than a man, because it is illegal.
Cleaners lose jobs after Vinnies ditches contractor
Cleaners at one of St Vincent de Paul's homeless centres face being left out in the cold at Christmas after the charity sacked one of its contractors.
Cash loses AWU documents court fight
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has two weeks to hand over documents linked to raids on the Australian Workers Union after she lost a legal bid in the Federal Court.
Ahmed Fahour resigns from last Aussie Post role in time for Christmas
Ahmed Fahour severed his final ties with Australia Post just in time for Christmas.
Your ATAR score is not your life's work
You do not need a grand plan, rather instead think in terms of what problems are out there in the world that you could usefully have a crack at.
Secret Woolies deal with Shoppies union cuts wages
The conservative union at the centre of a massive wages scandal has struck an extraordinary secret deal with Woolworths to hide from public scrutiny the pay rates of supermarket workers
The Greens' simple way to lift wages: pay public servants more
The Australian Greens have costed lifting public service public service wages by 4 per cent per annum.
Bartenders claim they were paid less than the cocktails they serve
Bartenders at some top Melbourne bars are paid below award rates which are less than the price of some cocktails which cost $23.
Penalty rate cut fails to stimulate jobs, survey shows
Cutting penalty rates across the country has failed to create any extra jobs or give workers more hours, new research has found.
Retail workers campaign against abuse from customers
Michelle Hooper is among one in nine retail and fast food workers who have been verbally abused by a customer in the past 12 months.
Low wage rises have become routine. Here's why
Another year without a pay rise? Prepare for yet another one, next year.
Uniting Church concerned about ATO not safeguarding holiday workers
The Uniting Church has criticised the Australian Tax Office for failing to provide a safeguard for backpackers against employers who avoid paying enough tax.
Political party, leader fined $81,000 for short-changing workers
The No Land Tax Party and its leader, Peter Jones, have been fined a total of $80,890 for paying election staff nothing.
The 20 hardest to fill jobs in Australia
For some jobs, such as environmental health officer, the market is skewed in favour of the job seeker.
Union leaders accused of conspiracy in waterfront blockade
A port operator at the centre of a two-week union protest and picket line blockading millions of dollars of cargo says the harm inflicted has been "immeasurable".
Breaking the cycle of intergenerational unemployment
A new program in western Sydney is helping break the bonds of inter-generational unemployment one coffee at a time
High-profile union leader faces court over waterfront blockade
One of Victoria's top union leaders has been hit with legal action over a two-week picket line blockading Christmas cargo on the busy Melbourne waterfront.
Law allowing bosses to sack pregnant women to be abolished
A legal exemption that affects pregnant women will be abolished.