Pay
Christmas strikes to roil Australian ports as CFMEU ‘plays Grinch’
Bulk goods such as building supplies, fertiliser and grains will be held up as the Maritime Union calls rolling strikes at several ports around the country.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Latest
‘Ignorance and inattention’: Bubble tea giant Chatime fined for wage scandal
The bubble tea chain and its managing director Chen “Charlley” Zhao have been penalised for ripping off 152 workers in 2016.
- by Jessica Yun
Exclusive
State Parliament
The secret entitlement NSW MPs can spend any way they choose
Depending on where their electorate is, politicians are entitled to an allowance ranging from $70,000 a year to $200,000. No one monitors how it is spent.
- by Alexandra Smith
Opinion
Opinion
How to know if you’re not paid enough (and how to fix it)
Knowing where your compensation stands can be the difference between earning thousands more or missing out on what you deserve.
- by Téa Angelos
Nurses took to the streets after ‘insulting’ pay offer. Next stop, court
About 700 surgeries were postponed on Wednesday as nurses and midwives hit the streets for the third time in as many months.
- by Angus Thomson, Max Maddison and Matt O'Sullivan
Updated
Public service
NSW Police have been offered a massive pay rise. Some will take home nearly 40 per cent more
Officers have been urged to accept the “generational” wage deal, which promises between 22.3 and 39.4 per cent over four years.
- by Max Maddison
Part-time on way out as Australians opt for ‘flexible work’ instead
Women are voting with their feet in a move to flexible full-time rather than traditional part-time work, a significant snapshot of Australian workplaces reveals.
- by Hamish Hastie
Opinion
Jobs
Flexible work is a business benefit – and looks like it’s here to stay
There have always been good and bad aspects to part-time work. But its nature has changed significantly recently – and it’s potentially to employees’ benefit.
- by Alan Duncan
Bigger pay packets could keep rates higher for longer, economists warn
Wages have grown more than inflation for the third quarter in a row as jobs in the public sector posted the highest pay increase for the June quarter in 12 years.
- by Millie Muroi
Australian real wage growth among worst in OECD
As the government campaigns on the cost of living, the OECD reports Australia’s wage growth lags the UK, Canada and the United States.
- by Rachel Clun
Incoming governor-general set to receive annual salary of $709,000
Proposed legislation to amend Sam Mostyn’s salary says it was calculated to “moderately exceed” the five-year average salary of High Court Chief Justice Stephen Gageler.
- by Olivia Ireland
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