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Why this teen is bucking the trend and studying ‘the dismal science’
Kate Gibson hopes to work in public policy or health when she finishes her economics degree, but fewer of her peers are signing up – despite the high salaries.
- Julie Hare
Higher Education Summit
The Higher Education Summit critically examines the policy shake-ups, big ideas and bold strategies that aim at equipping the sector to meet the needs of our economy for decades to come.
CFMEU redundancy fund push sparks call for worker choice
Builders are calling for workers to have the right to choose their own redundancy fund in response to a CFMEU push to oust a fund that returned thousands of dollars to workers.
- David Marin-Guzman
What this CEO has learnt about spouting off ideas in meetings
Netwealth CEO Matt Heine is a self-proclaimed “ideas fountain,” but has learnt the trait doesn’t always work in the top job.
- Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
Female graduates beat males on all fronts – except salary
The gender pay gap is reducing – slowly – over time. But women who graduate at the same time as men can still expect to earn significantly less.
- Julie Hare
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
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.
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From Lego to McKinsey, bureaucratic managers hurt companies
Big business executives are allowing themselves to be used to deliver social benefits governments can’t.
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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.
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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.
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This Month
- Opinion
- Social media
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
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
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
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
- Opinion
- Leadership lessons
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
- Opinion
- Workplace culture
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
- Exclusive
- University
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
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
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
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.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman
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
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
