Yesterday
How red tape and bad tax are choking Australia’s prosperity
The productivity summit must be more than a talkfest. If done well, it could be the basis for taking policy risks and reforms that underpin future growth.
Unions will push AI regulation and pay at productivity summit
White-collar groups want protections for workers disrupted by artificial intelligence while blue-collar ones are seeking wage rises through productivity boosts.
This Month
BHP sparkies fight for $250k pay standard in the Pilbara
Electricians in the Pilbara are preparing to fight for an 18 per cent pay rise, while critical rail workers have opened up a new union front.
The brutal truth about being fired these days
Sacking people is sometimes necessary. But dismissing people by email or phone is still distressingly common and needs to stop.
Unions turn on each other in war over Woodside gas
A vicious fight is playing out on WA’s biggest construction project, raising the spectre of major industrial disruption next year as pay talks get under way.
Compo claims for stress and burnout are driving businesses to the edge
Psychological injury claims are exploding, but the Coalition and unions think the Minns government is making the wrong workers pay for a lax system.
Miners fight back in the Pilbara with cash and lawyers
Rio Tinto and BHP are pushing back against attempts to unionise the iron ore-rich region for the first time in 30 years.
ABC staffer takes broadcaster to court in test case
The ABC is accused of breaching labour laws by pushing staff into multiple fixed-term contracts and failing to offer job security.
Businesses face $1.9b bill without workers’ comp reforms: Mookhey
The NSW Coalition is pushing for a new inquiry into “cruel and unacceptable” changes to mental health compensation claims.
Workers’ compensation scheme needs to be reformed
With the burgeoning cost of psychological injury claims, it’s reasonable to question if the scheme’s coverage of injury complaints is too broad.
Minister accused of intervention in penalty rates case
New Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth’s letter to the Fair Work Commission has prompted it to consider delaying its ruling on retail workers’ penalty rates.
Tim Ayres is wrong. Unions should not control AI use in workplaces
The idea that trade unions should be able to exercise some sort of veto over the use of artificial intelligence is retrograde and risks Australia falling behind the rest of the world.
How can Australia navigate the AI-driven fourth industrial revolution
History shows that great technological revolutions have a pattern: rapid disruption, job displacement, and eventually, adaptation.
Female lawyers may be in line for a big pay rise
Graduate lawyers, academics, actors, architects and book editors are next in line for potentially significant gender pay rises following the minimum wage decision.
NSW workers compensation reforms hit a snag
The Coalition will oppose the Minns government’s plan to make it harder to claim for psychological injuries.
Historic real increase to minimum wage ‘not sustainable’
Employers say the Fair Work Commission has underestimated how bad productivity growth is and the biggest real increase to award wages since 2019 can’t be sustained.
Make penalties on WFH part of productivity talks, business tells Labor
Employers will push for flexibility around work hours and penalty rates when employees work from home in talks with the workplace relations minister.
Are Labor’s industrial relations summits a union power grab?
The last time Labor held an “open dialogue” summit, it was merely a front for the ACTU to have the government endorse its legislative agenda.
Coalition mulls sinking NSW Labor’s ‘axe’ to workers compensation
Business groups press to pass Minns government reforms, but the Coalition and Greens could team up to defeat major changes to psychological injury claims.
Sacked teacher uses right to disconnect to sue for $800k
The case is the first public legal action to cite the Albanese government’s new right to disconnect laws.