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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
    Jennifer Westacott, Geoff Wilson and Philip Lowe in Sydney this month.

    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
    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
    Master Builders Australia chief executive Denita Wawn said “for too long the government has turned a blind eye” to worker entitlement funds.

    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
    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
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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
    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
    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

    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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    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
    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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