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    CFMEU NSW secretary Darren Greenfield (front) claimed the union had negotiated the deal with builders.

    CFMEU push to end workers’ returns under redundancy fund

    The NSW union branch is seeking to end workers getting thousands of dollars in returns a year and to send their contributions to a John Setka-backed Victorian fund.

    • David Marin-Guzman
    The Electrical Trades Union says industry rates are needed to fix a shortfall of 32,000 electricains by 2030.

    Labor called to mandate industry pay for energy transition

    The Electrical Trades Union wants all federally funded renewable energy projects to mandate industry rates to stop a race to the bottom.

    • David Marin-Guzman

    Ord Minnett sued for sacking ‘recklessly dishonest’ director

    Broking director David Wylie was fired for allegedly making up that the Ord Minnett’s senior leadership expected him to sell his house to pay the firm’s ASIC penalty.

    • David Marin-Guzman

    Aussies aren’t all Bondi Beach fit, Ozempic’s new local exec has just realised

    Novo Nordisk Oceania managing director Cem Ozenc mourns the fact Australia’s obesity challenge is lost amid the celebrity hype surrounding the medication.

    • Sally Patten

    Qld union’s 13pc pay rise may spoil energy relief

    One of the biggest first-year pay rises in the country could add 30 per cent to costs, as Labor rolls out $1300 in household energy relief ahead of the October state election.

    • David Marin-Guzman

    ‘There is no work-life balance’ for Ange Postecoglou

    How does the Tottenham manager balance the Premier League with being a father and husband? He doesn’t.

    • Euan Black

    Recent columns

    The humble email sign-off is not what it used to be

    It is not exactly clear when the sign-off turned into yet another tool in the arsenal of self-promotion deployed in so much of modern corporate life, but I do not see it fading any time soon.

    Pilita Clark

    Columnist

    Pilita Clark

    From Lego to McKinsey, bureaucratic managers hurt companies

    Big business executives are allowing themselves to be used to deliver social benefits governments can’t.

    Adrian Wooldridge

    Contributor

    How much fun should you have at work?

    Jokes at work need to be deployed with skill and care. Yet, the best are glorious and the working world would be a far better place if we had a great deal more of them.

    Pilita Clark

    Columnist

    Pilita Clark

    Domestic violence is also a workplace issue

    Governments should take the lead on the problem, but other groups can do more, including employers. Companies can achieve much more than many imagine.

    Pilita Clark

    Columnist

    Pilita Clark
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    The humble email sign-off is not what it used to be

    It is not exactly clear when the sign-off turned into yet another tool in the arsenal of self-promotion deployed in so much of modern corporate life, but I do not see it fading any time soon.

    • Pilita Clark

    This Month

    Legoland Malaysia in 2013: In the 1990s, the Lego Group diversified into clothes, watches, publications, TV and theme parks.

    From Lego to McKinsey, bureaucratic managers hurt companies

    Big business executives are allowing themselves to be used to deliver social benefits governments can’t.

    • Adrian Wooldridge
    The boss’ decision may have been uncaring but it wasn’t wrongful, the commission found.

    What the state of your desk says about your work

    Whether you have a Jane Austen or Bill Gates type ordered desk or a Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein messy desk, might explain the way you think and work.

    • Eleanor Steafel
    Bec Ellinson, who is now working for Seek, studied both on-campus and online – not out of choice, but because of the pandemic.

    The uni employers like most when hiring graduates

    Curtin University ranked highest among bosses for the quality of graduates, but a survey found students who studied off campus lacked collaboration skills.

    • Julie Hare
    Women dominate industries such as childcare, aged care and nursing, and wages are often low.

    Budget uncertainty on minimum wage could spoil unions’ bid

    The workplace umpire has complained that it has no clarity over government funding for higher minimum wages for female-dominated sectors, risking spoiling unions landmark bid for a 9 per cent increase.

    • David Marin-Guzman
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    Partners upsizes forecasts for Guardian Childcare ahead of auction

    Street Talk has the skinny on updated earning figures that Partners Group is betting will get tyre-kickers fighting to be teacher’s pet.

    • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
    The ad doesn’t mention pay, but it does say the editor will “manage several major publications throughout the year” at Newington.

    ‘Managing editor’ search keeps the bonfire going at Newington

    The extravagant addition would bring the number of media staffers at the school to five.

    • Lucas Baird

    Why you don’t have to be ruthless to be successful

    Founder of Matchbox Pictures Tony Ayres talks about how to succeed without being ruthless, the value of unsent emails and, for telling stories, the rule of three.

    • Lap Phan and Ciara Seccombe
    The NTEU says not paying academics for responding to student emails outside of work hours is inconsistent with the right to disconnect laws.

    Academics seek pay for emails out of hours

    A major union is using Labor’s new right to disconnect laws to scrap a “common practice” where casual academics do not get separately paid to be contacted outside of hours.

    • David Marin-Guzman

    How much fun should you have at work?

    Jokes at work need to be deployed with skill and care. Yet, the best are glorious and the working world would be a far better place if we had a great deal more of them.

    • Pilita Clark
    Peter Coaldrake says university governing bodies need to be tougher on their vice-chancellors.

    Failure to rein in uni bosses led to problems of ‘excess’

    Peter Coaldrake has been deeply involved in the university sector for five decades, the past four years as head regulator. And he is troubled by what is going on.

    • Julie Hare
    ACCI says “flexibility and choice” must be core to the right to disconnect.

    Employers back worker ‘choice’ in right to disconnect battle

    The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has warned against strict rights to disconnect in awards, saying it could affect enthusiastic staff.

    • David Marin-Guzman
    Sephora’s head of HR claimed she guessed the union was “too busy” to negotiate with it.

    Call to change bargaining laws as Sephora ‘sidesteps’ union

    The retail union is pushing the government to change bargaining laws to stop employers from secretly sidelining unions to push through deals behind their back.

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    • David Marin-Guzman
    Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

    Budget relief comes on top of ‘decent’ wage rise: Chalmers

    Treasurer Jim Chalmers has fought back against an employer push to use the budget’s cost-of-living relief to lower this year’s minimum wage increase.

    • David Marin-Guzman
    The Alfama neighbourhood in downtown Lisbon. Portugal is among the countries offering digital nomad visas.

    Countries wooing corporate digital nomads hope to make them stay

    More countries have introduced a form of digital nomad visa since the pandemic increased demand from employees to “work from anywhere”.

    • Emma Agyemang
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    Protesters have renamed the Arts West building Mahmoud’s Hall, in honour of a Palestinian student who they say intended to study at Melbourne University on a scholarship this year but was killed in Gaza on October 20.

    Sydney Uni wins appeal over academic dismissed over Nazi slide

    Tough-talking university administrators are showing signs their patience is wearing thin, but police involvement is still a last resort.

    • Julie Hare and Patrick Durkin
    The construction industry’s blokey culture initially put off apprentice electrician Courtney Gibney from picking up a trade.

    Why office worker Courtney became a tradie after watching The Block

    Courtney Gibney wanted a hands-on job that didn’t involve sitting at a desk all day. The job security of being a licensed electrician fit the bill.

    • Euan Black
    Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox quoted former union chief Bill Kelty in support of his position.

    Bosses say budget assistance justifies smaller minimum wage increase

    Employers have invoked former union chief Bill Kelty to back a moderate pay rise, saying budget relief ensures low-paid workers’ disposable income will rise.

    • David Marin-Guzman
    Endeavour Energy workers have been taking protected work bans since February.

    Company has rare win over work bans that jacked up its power bill

    Agribusiness giant Manildra has won orders to stop Endeavour Energy workers’ long-running industrial action after arguing it would cost millions of dollars in extra electricity costs.

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    Fluency co-founders Oliver Farnhill and Finnlay Morecombe with their mentor Dr Angel Zhong.

    How this intern turned paper-shuffling into a $3m start-up

    Finnlay Morcombe found himself spending hours on a tedious but important task while on an internship. It turned into a fantastic business idea.

    • Julie Hare