The gender pay gap is about $40,000 a year for people aged 45 to 65,while women who reach senior executive roles are taking home nearly $100,000 less each year than their male counterparts.
Part-time work was the difference between chaos and sanity and the idea I’d gone into “a minor part-time workforce” seemed to diminish the difficult decision I’d made.
Dr Kirstin Ferguson says forcing employees to exhaust most of their annual leave should always be a last resort for an employer.
The challenge for a Labor federal government is to support expansive labour migration in a way that does not produce a race to the bottom in labour standards.
The federal government has given $7.8 million to slow the looming closure of Activ’s large scale industrial workshops,but employees and their carers say they want it to stay open.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed his legislative priorities and plans for the next six months,including domestic and family violence leave and more ambitious climate change legislation.
Luke Anderson still gets goosebumps thinking about the day he got a job after he left prison. Now he’s a boss – and he hopes to employ other ex-inmates.
The number of people looking for a job or underemployed has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years as the unemployment rate remains steady at 3.9 per cent.
Tesla’s chair Robyn Denholm is confident the recent wipeout in global technology stock valuations will not hinder growth in the sector domestically.
The only path to sustainable real wages growth is a sustained improvement in the productivity of our workforce.
As a worker deals with an employer who echoes the recent edict from Elon Musk to Tesla employees,Dr Kirstin Ferguson has some frank advice.