Industrial relations
- Exclusive
- Schools
The worst paid teachers in Australia are spoiling for a fight to get a better deal
The teachers’ union has raised the spectre of strike action for the first time in a decade in pursuit of a pay demand of up to 14 per cent for 52,000 Victorian government school educators.
- Noel Towell
Latest
- Exclusive
- Australia votes
Unions demand new wage theft tribunal as Labor vows to stop penalty rate changes
In a striking clash with Labor’s agenda, the Coalition will promise to slash taxes for small businesses.
- David Crowe and Paul Sakkal
Emergency beds closed, doctors offered $2000 a day to work as strike begins
Around 370 patients had elective surgeries cancelled as more than 3500 doctors walked off the job on Tuesday.
- Angus Thomson
The Sydney hospitals to be hit hardest by three-day doctors’ strike
Surgeries have been cancelled and non-urgent patients told to avoid the state’s emergency departments as hospitals brace for unprecedented industrial action.
- Angus Thomson
- Opinion
- Competition
The fine print costing Australians a pay rise
It’s a clause in job contracts costing one in five Australians. Here’s why banning it is a boon to more than just our salaries.
- Millie Muroi
- Updated
- Health
‘Unprecedented’: NSW doctors to defy court order and strike for three days
The union wants a 30 per cent pay rise and working conditions that better address worker fatigue.
- Angus Thomson
Doctors ordered to call off three-day strike in latest pay dispute
It is unclear whether hundreds of NSW doctors will defy the demand and walk off the job for three days next week.
- Angus Thomson
The fine print that makes it easier to quit your job – and earn more money
Up to 3 million workers will be free to change jobs under a government proposal to ban non-compete agreements that prevent staff defecting to other employers.
- Nick Bonyhady
‘I won’t be intimidated’: Coalition frontbencher fires back at Gatto
The Liberal Party senator won’t take backward step after underworld figure Mick Gatto threatened to sue.
- Mathew Dunckley and Olivia Ireland
Sydney spared return to train chaos after court throws out appeal
A union representing almost 1000 rail workers has been unsuccessful in its appeal to the Federal Court of a months-long suspension of industrial action.
- Matt O'Sullivan
Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/industrial-relations-5yl