Today
Push to delay ASX diversity rules until 2026
Key members of the ASX Corporate Governance Council will push to delay diversity reporting for listed companies until 2026, at a meeting of industry CEOs on Friday.
- Patrick Durkin
Yesterday
From Chengdu to Woolloomooloo for this arts boss
The new director of Artspace, a centre for contemporary art in Sydney, is a rare executive in the local scene who has curated in mainland China.
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- Michael Bailey
This Month
‘He was Switzerland’: Edgar Myer to chair MSO as court battle looms
The anthropologist and lawyer turned fund manager and philanthropist takes the orchestra’s helm ahead of a court date with pianist Jayson Gillham.
- Michael Bailey
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Bizarre new era of industrial relations must be unwound
State-sponsored and third-party interference threatens to kill workplace productivity and prosperity. Here are eight ways to fix the situation.
- Steve Knott
Woolworths orders 10,000 staff back to the office
Supermarket chain Woolworths has told its 10,000 office-based workers they will have to attend the workplace at least three days a week from October.
- Euan Black
Inside the fight over McDonald’s 100,000 low-paid worker army
Crew trainer Connor Boyle is part of a test case to extend multi-employer bargaining laws to the types of workforces unions have always struggled to organise.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- ANU
Leaked consulting firm slide deck gives hints on ANU job cuts
A secret document from Nous Group, which has been hired by ANU to push through job cuts, was left behind in a staff lunchroom exposing restructure plans.
- Julie Hare
The business case for diversity is not always clear-cut
HR bosses say DEI is good for the bottom line. Critics emboldened by Donald Trump say that’s not backed by evidence. Who’s right?
- Euan Black
At Fortescue, you really can ask the boss anything
A permanent ‘Ask-Us-Anything’ portal has prompted staff demands for everything from an office swimming pool to $100,000 cash prizes to more biscuits in kitchenettes.
- Hannah Wootton
January
Tracking and decoding corporate jargon
A tracker of our growing list of corporatespeak – and our suggestions for plain-language alternatives. Consider it your jargon dictionary.
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- Edmund Tadros
The workforce challenges keeping these HR bosses up at night
BOSS talks to six human resources executives about challenges they face in 2025. Rethinking diversity programs may not be one of them, but there are many others.
- Sally Patten, Patrick Durkin and Euan Black
- Exclusive
- Diversity
‘You would be tone-deaf’ to ignore Trump’s ESG backlash
Macquarie Group director Jillian Broadbent says companies need to be sensible about their push for greater diversity, particularly when faced with immediate challenges such as a cost of living crisis.
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- Patrick Durkin and Hans van Leeuwen
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Overtime rates for retail workers could be axed in employer push
Major supermarkets and other retailers have joined a case to exempt senior staff from award conditions, waive “outdated” smoko breaks and allow split shifts.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- Diversity
A woke mining boss shows why Trump’s DEI crusade will fail
Davos showed how many companies are convinced diversity and environmental measures make financial sense.
- Updated
- Pilita Clark
- Exclusive
- Governance
ASX governance council splits over DEI
Business groups want to water down the proposed rules for boards to report on diversity characteristics, amid a backlash following Donald Trump’s re-election.
- Patrick Durkin and James Eyers
Unions want ‘same-looking job, same pay’: BHP
BHP lawyers have urged the umpire to adopt a “big picture” approach to exemptions from same job, same pay laws for the company’s labour hire firms.
- David Marin-Guzman
The gap between providing ‘labour’ and ‘services’ could be $49k a year
Workers employed by BHP subsidiaries and labour-hire firms are paid much less to do the same work as its direct workforce, unions argue in a major test case.
- Euan Black
- Opinion
- Opinion
Zuckerberg says workplaces need more ‘masculine energy’. He’s wrong
The Meta chief executive wants to celebrate aggression, but his suggestion that office life has become less competitive is nonsense, even amid all the home-baked treats.
- Jo Ellison
- Opinion
- Opinion
The thing about rich bosses
Wealthy managers are increasingly isolated from the less well-off at work and that’s not good news.
- Pilita Clark
What train drivers, psychiatrists and others get paid
The recent spate of disruptive industrial disputes between governments and public sector workers has sparked conversations about how much these employees earn.
- Euan Black