Employment
Work for the Dole on the chopping block under Labor
It has warned the industry that the business case for the $65 million program is "less than clear".
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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Analysis
Analysis
We don't job hop as much as we think we do
Australians are increasingly staying with the same employer for longer, and it's partly due to the rise of women in the workforce.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Daily Life
Dear bosses, spare us the feedback sandwich, we're onto it
The idea is that you can reduce the discomfort and potential awkwardness of giving negative feedback by layering it between two thick slices of praise.
- by Kasey Edwards
Jobs
Queensland drops again as South Australia overtakes us in CommSec report
The opposition claims the gap between Queensland and the top-performing states is widening.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Woolworths
New junior Woolies staff take pay hit under deal
New junior employees who start work at Woolworths supermarkets will be paid base rates that are $1.15 less per hour than those for existing employees under a new wages agreement.
- by Anna Patty
Pay
Thousands attend ACTU rally in Melbourne and Sydney to fight against low pay
Up to 150,000 are expected to rally in Melbourne and thousands more in Sydney today as part of the ACTU campaign to improve work rights, pay and job security.
- by Anna Patty
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Employment
Public service shrinks to smallest size in 12 years
The bureaucracy is now significantly smaller than it was during John Howard's last year in power.
- by Markus Mannheim
Opinion
Opinion
The jobs boom is leaving some people behind
For the first time, less than half of all Australians are in full-time work. About one in four are working casually.
- by Kasy Chambers
Employment
'Shallow approach': Morrison's farm welfare scheme slammed
If jobseekers don't have a reasonable excuse for not accepting the work they can have their income support benefits reduced or withdrawn for up to four weeks.
- by Eliza Berlage
'A travesty of justice': Job seekers stripped of payments by private companies
Private operators are stripping people of their unemployment benefits without consulting government departments, leaving them with few avenues of redress despite up to one million mistakes being made last year.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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Employment
The government's secret $660 million offer to crossbenchers during company tax cut negotiations
Crossbench senators were offered an increase to welfare payments as part of the government's doomed efforts.
- by Fergus Hunter