This Month
No penalty or overtime for well-paid chefs
Restaurants and cafes could exclude senior managers and chefs from the award if they earn more than $82,000 a year, in a significant step towards the Morrison government’s bid for award flexibility.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Minimum wage
Employers use lockdown to justify low wage rise
Employers say because Victoria’s shutdown is a risk to economic recovery, anything above a 1.1 per cent minimum pay increase would be ‘completely unreasonable’.
- David Marin-Guzman
Billion-dollar coal fund probed over industry fraud claims
Attorney-General Michaelia Cash has launched a review into the black coal industry’s long service leave fund to examine potential governance and fraud issues.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman
May
- Opinion
- icare investigation
Headline-grabbing gimmick backfires on icare
The country’s biggest workers’ compensation scheme tried to get on the front foot with some positive spin, but staff see it as a stunt that threw them under the bus.
- Adele Ferguson
One in five women get less than six hours sleep a night
Office workers suffering increased fatigue and sleeping less thanks to hybrid working.
- Sally Patten
Four tips on what women can do to enter (and stay in) the tech sector
The scale of the problem around the lack of gender diversity in technology means companies and female candidates must act.
- Sally Patten
Lawyers in line for generous pay rises
After pausing salary increases in 2020, law, accounting, property and consultancy firms are bringing forward mid-year salary reviews.
- Tess Bennett
BHP’s industrial relations guru exits
The designer of BHP’s “Operations Services” industrial relations reforms has exited the miner ahead of a busy period of negotiating new deals with workers.
- Peter Ker
Creating the perfect workspace by design
Competitive businesses are not just after headcount numbers anymore but skilled individuals and teams who can each add value through what they do.
- Jonathan Porter
Employers demand to know if staff have been vaccinated
In a sign of mounting tension in the workplace, two-thirds of employers believe they should have the right to know whether staff have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
- Sally Patten
Deliveroo rider classed an employee in Fair Work split
The ruling has added to uncertainty over the rights of gig economy workers, contradicting a full bench decision that Uber Eats drivers are not employees.
- Hannah Wootton
Coffee giant claims to know the secret to a happy workplace
Nestlé hired a psychologist and commissioned research to find how to convince staff to return to work. Their conclusion was more coffee machines.
- Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Labor’s wage hypocrisy
If boosting wages is as easy as borrowing and spending, then why isn’t the labour movement up in arms about Victorian Labor’s ‘austerity’ budget?
- The AFR View
50 is the new 60 when it comes to defining ‘older worker’
Age Discrimination Commissioner Kay Patterson is worried the coronavirus, which placed an increasing emphasis on IT skills, may have contributed to this change,
- Hannah Wootton
Victoria goes it alone on gig workers
The Andrews government is going it alone on reforms for gig economy workers, ramping up pressure on the federal government and the digital giants to act.
- Patrick Durkin
Wellbeing underpins productivity
From its pioneering beginnings in New Zealand, Xero has emerged as one of the world’s leading providers of cloud-based software to the small business sector.
How to make the right decision
The vast majority of ethical dilemmas do not relate to large scale fraud or stealing. They are dilemmas we all face daily in the course of our work.
- Vanessa Pigrum
Service ethos shapes an ideal workplace
When brothers David and Aidan Tudehope started Macquarie Telecom in 1992 three principles set the course for the ambitious startup:
Why companies need to become more like soccer teams
The shift away from hierarchies towards networks is the most important cultural shift of the past 50 years, argues renowned author Malcolm Gladwell.
- Sally Patten
April
Atlassian says staff can limit days in the office to only four a year
The technology giant has also announced its global staff of 5700 will be allowed to work from any location in the world, under its new ‘Team Anywhere’ policy.
- Bianca Healey
