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    Australian Restaurant and Cafe Association (left to right) deputy chair Chris Lucas, CEO Wes Lambert and chair Neil Perry at their new headquarters in North Sydney.

    Neil Perry, top chefs combine and take on the old guard

    Heavy hitters including Luke Mangan and Merivale have joined a new association to help save the restaurant industry – and challenge a century-old lobby group.

    • David Marin-Guzman
    Ian Lilley has recently come back from parental leave.

    Why dads take less time off than mums

    Gender stereotypes are discouraging men from taking paid parental leave, a survey has found, making it harder for Australia to close the gender pay gap.

    • Euan Black
    • Exclusive

    How Geoff Wilson assembled his investment dream team

    Philip Lowe, Jennifer Westacott, Mike Baird, David Paradice, Andrew Forrest and Solomon Lew are among the heavy-hitters who have joined Geoff Wilson’s charitable mission to raise money for kids.

    • Patrick Durkin

    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

    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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    May

    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
    The gender pay gap is baked into Australia’s labour market, with men out-earning women just months after graduating from university.

    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 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 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
    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
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    Former Ord Minnett director David Wylie is suing to get his $110,000 bonus back.

    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
    Cem Ozenc, general manager and vice-president of Novo Nordisk Oceania, in Sydney.

    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
    Tottenham Hotspur coach Ange Postecoglou, right, and former Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak thanks fans at the MCG on Wednesday night.

    ‘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
    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

    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
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    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