This Month
- Boss
- Workplace
Companies take big steps to help support Melbourne staff
PwC is considering a program where Melbourne employees can locate a colleague who lives within a 5km radius so they can go for a walk together.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Work in the shutdown
Working from home is starting to pall
The lack of a commute and other evils has made life so much easier, yet the longer remote working goes on, the more it is beginning to grate.
- Pilita Clark
- Exclusive
- Legal industry
The lawyer who wants to be king of class actions
Rory Markham has initiated 15 lawsuits seeking $1.4 billion, drawing condemnation from unions and business for what he says is the only justice available to many, writes Aaron Patrick.
- Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- The AFR View
End the casual confusion
Rather than leave an important public policy decision to the lawyers and regulators, or left to the veto of the ACTU, the law regarding casual worker needs to be urgently fixed.
- The AFR View
Eight mystery cases keep NSW 'precarious'
Premier Gladys Berejiklian says NSW is only halfway through its battle to avert a second wave of the pandemic, with eight cases over the past week not linked to any known source.
- David Marin-Guzman
Business, unions unite for paid pandemic leave
The Business Council and the ACTU are urging the Morrison government to quickly introduce and fund a paid pandemic leave scheme for all workers.
- David Marin-Guzman
'Workplaces need more people like me'
Business leader Charlotte Valeur tells Maria Lally why, in her fifties, she has spoken out about her autism.
- Maria Lally
- Analysis
- Industrial relations
Icare execs face grilling as pressure mounts for heads to roll
Workplace compensation scheme icare's senior executives will face a grilling in NSW Parliament on Monday about deteriorating finances and underpayment of workers.
- Updated
- Adele Ferguson
- Opinion
- Gender equality
The economic case for gender targets
Research shows that adding women to all-male teams increases group intelligence and performance, just like a portfolio of bonds and equities gives better risk-adjusted returns than bonds or equities alone.
- Kate Howitt
Corporate watchdog call to book 'regular' casual liabilities
Corporations must calculate any leave owed to 'regular' casuals in their next financial statement as a result of a precedent court ruling, ASIC has advised.
- David Marin-Guzman
July
Plutus conspirator 'motivated by more' gets five years' jail
One of the key architects of the $100m Plutus tax fraud has received five years' jail without parole after the court declared it was one of the most serious crimes to come before the courts.
- David Marin-Guzman
So just what can you say in the office these days?
As social issues become central to corporate values, the boundaries of what workers are allowed to communicate are shifting.
- Henry Mance
Aged care centres warn of cost blowout for pandemic leave
The low bar for workers to self-isolate could see the costs of paid pandemic leave escalate quickly, aged care centres warn as they demand government funding beyond hotspots.
- David Marin-Guzman
Aged care workers granted paid pandemic leave
The Fair Work Commission has granted aged workers across the country paid pandemic leave after finding that the low-paid workers may seek to attend work even if infected.
- David Marin-Guzman
Unions back stimulus to curb economic shock
The ACTU is backing billions of dollars in stimulus measures in response to the latest economic forecasts but any reforms to IR are not expected to be significant.
- David Marin-Guzman
Virus risk in Black Lives Matter protest 'cannot be mitigated'
The NSW Supreme Court is expected to decide on Sunday whether next week's Black Lives Matter protest can go ahead after police argued the risk of COVID-19 at the march was too high.
- David Marin-Guzman
Woolworths locks out warehouse workers
Woolworths has shut down one of its warehouses for four days in response to workers striking for 24 hours and insisting on huge pay claims.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman
The list of 50 best places to work in Australia in 2020 is out now
The ranking by global workplace research and consulting firm Great Place to Work also identified what each company did to support staff during the coronavirus.
- Sharon Masige
Watch: Future Briefing webcast on the future of work
Join experts from Australia and abroad in this special webcast exploring the future of the workplace.
- Alana Piper
'Old school' executive power disrupted by virtual work
Executives are struggling to extend their influence in the virtual work space while employees find remote collaboration more mentally taxing than the office.
- David Marin-Guzman
