Today
Business fights back against ‘right to disconnect’ from work
Employers have come out in opposition to a Labor-Greens deal on a right to disconnect after warning it risks returning workplaces to rigid nine-to-five environments.
- David Marin-Guzman
Yesterday
CFMEU official gets bail over violent home invasion
Construction union organiser Edmond “Monty” Margjini has been accused of attacking a woman with a machete more than a decade ago.
- David Marin-Guzman and Tom Rabe
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This Month
Koko Black and Subway ‘gaming the system’ in penalty rate deals: union
Luxury chocolatier Koko Black and Subway franchisees have been accused of trying to shortchange hundreds of workers by using legal loopholes that erode minimum rates.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- Workplace culture
Culture clash as Baby Boomers and Gen Z stop talking at work
Male managers are so terrified of getting “cancelled” that some are avoiding conversations with their young colleagues altogether.
- Lucy Burton
Lamb chops, clothes and cars held up in damaging ports dispute
Businesses have lashed governments’ indifference to ongoing port strikes, saying claims of no significant disruption to the economy are “ridiculous”.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Union official boasts Burke won’t stop port strikes
A senior official from the maritime union has been recorded boasting that Labor has told the union it won’t intervene in the three-month port strikes.
- David Marin-Guzman
The professor, his student and a decade of ‘serious misconduct’
The sacking of star economist Chris Edmond has rocked the establishment. Academics are seeking answers from one of the country’s top universities, and the RBA.
- Mark Di Stefano and Aaron Patrick
DP World begs for ‘cool off’ as strikes cause more damage than hack
The stevedore argued for the Fair Work Commission to order a 90-day “cooling off” period to allow for talks with the Maritime Union of Australia
- David Marin-Guzman
BHP strike threat could shut down five Qld mines
Critical BHP overseers are preparing to take industrial action that could shut down 70 per cent of the mining giant’s Queensland mines.
- David Marin-Guzman
‘The moment they come in’: Unions line up targets of IR changes
Qantas, BHP, warehouses, manufacturing and food and beverage processing will be the first to be targeted under Labor’s new labour hire laws, according to unions and employers.
- David Marin-Guzman
John Setka’s ex-wife found guilty of making threats to kill him
Emma Walters has been found guilty of making threats to kill the union heavyweight and CFMEU boss, but was only fined $1500.
- Euan Black
Bosses hiring more white-collar workers based overseas
A software engineer can earn $169,000 in Australia but the same job is paid $75,000 in India.
- Euan Black
No, drinking while WFH is not OK
An ACT primary teacher spotted drinking directly from a wine cask during a Zoom call with a supervisor disputed having his pay docked. He lost.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Updated
- Industrial relations
Miners to wage war against Labor after secret IR deal
Big business has been angered by a deal that splits the government’s Closing Loopholes Bill into two parts.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman and Tom McIlroy
Firms aren’t ready for a wave of new sexual harassment rules
Fewer than half of directors are confident their companies will be able to meet to new workplace sexual harassment rules when they come into force next week.
- Sally Patten
‘Frivolous’ flexible work claims a drain on business: retailer
E-commerce retailer New Aim was forced to defend court action from a recent hire who wanted to work remotely from New Zealand where her partner lived.
- David Marin-Guzman
University wage theft tops $159m: union tally
The majority of universities have now been involved in short-changing some 100,000 staff, with unions saying there is a crisis of accountability in the sector.
- David Marin-Guzman
‘Cannot go uncorrected’: Supreme Court’s unusual rebuke of minister
The NSW Supreme Court has made an extraordinary intervention to defend itself against criticism from a state government minister.
- David Marin-Guzman
Landmark wage theft case collapses
The Victorian government’s wage cop has dropped its first criminal case over underpayments, signalling the potential end of the state’s wage theft jurisdiction.
- David Marin-Guzman
