Today
Companies picking up the bill for employees’ egg freezing and IVF
Google has joined the growing ranks of companies offering financial reimbursements to staff for fertility treatments.
- Euan Black
Yesterday
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Watchdog drops 30pc of cases against CFMEU
The workplace watchdog has filed no new cases against the construction union for 18 months and has dropped 30 per cent of the cases alleging construction union law-breaking it inherited after Labor’s election.
- David Marin-Guzman
This Month
Executive sues over HR gossip and surveillance
A senior executive is seeking damages over claims his employer’s human resources chief spread false gossip about him in the workplace and charged his direct report to spy on him.
- David Marin-Guzman
US ban on non-competes will likely ‘embolden’ Labor
A blanket ban on non-compete clauses in the United States is likely to embolden the Albanese government to go hard on regulating post-employment restraints in Australia, some legal experts have predicted.
- David Marin-Guzman
Highest-paid CFOs revealed
The country’s top CFOs continue to enjoy a “breakout period” on pay and remain in the box seat as the country’s next CEOs.
- Patrick Durkin
Job seekers refuse to meet employers in person
Virtual job interviews are making it harder to assess applicants and highlighting a decline in people skills since the rise of working from home.
- Euan Black
Gen Z bosses redefine workplaces with crystals and gratitude journals
The number of such UK directors shot up by 42 per cent in the year to January. There are now almost a quarter of a million – and they are bringing changes.
- Charlotte Gill
CFMEU let off the hook by watchdog for ‘most serious’ threats: judge
A Federal Circuit Court judgment raises questions about the Fair Work Ombudsman’s appetite to enforce workplace laws on construction sites since Labor took power.
- Hannah Wootton
Employees who refused WFH jobs get cut in redundancy payout
The Fair Work Commission has for the first time reduced payouts for retrenched Bartercard employees because they did not accept job offers requiring them to work entirely from home.
- David Marin-Guzman
Childcare workers desert industry for higher wages in aged care
The country’s largest childcare operator says workers are leaving the sector for higher-paying roles in industries such as aged care.
- Euan Black
Economics professor sacked for ‘personal relationship’ with student
The University of Melbourne’s defence of its firing of an academic has pointed to claims he massaged shoulders and often asked a student to go out for a drink.
- David Marin-Guzman
‘Two way street’: Umpire rules WFH push ignores face-to-face benefits
The Fair Work Commission has backed staff returning to the office for collaboration after dismissing a bank employee’s bid to work from home to care for his family.
- David Marin-Guzman
‘Get the job done’: One in two lawyers use AI
In-house lawyers were adopting the tools more quickly than their law firm counterparts, research has found.
- Euan Black
- Analysis
- Lehrmann trial
The stupidity of Bruce Lehrmann
The ex-political adviser turned victory into defeat in the quest for money. He will now be known as the rapist who put himself on trial, and lost.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Workers could get rights to double their holidays
Unions and employers are close to agreement on introducing a right for workers to take twice their annual leave on half pay.
- David Marin-Guzman
Labor push to delay aged care pay rise over worker shortage fears
The Albanese government has warned a large pay jump could fuel labour shortages and risk its budget strategy of cost of living relief without added inflation.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
CFMEU push to take control of the Labor Party
John Setka plans to use the militant union’s hundreds of delegates and members to boost its influence on internal ALP politics in Victorian and federal parliaments.
- David Marin-Guzman
Work from home rights will fuel tension in the workplace, AHRI warns
Human resources managers have intervened to oppose expanding work from home rights on grounds it will exacerbate tensions in the office between those who can work from home and those that cannot.
- David Marin-Guzman
Greg lets his staff work from home every day – but there’s a catch
Sydney boss Greg Weiss says competent employees can be trusted to work remotely full-time if accountability measures are put in place.
- Gus McCubbing
Golf ranges are booming on weekdays. Welcome to the WFH economy
Most office workers now spend some of their week working from home. Remote working is changing the way we live and do business.
- Sally Patten, Euan Black, Michael Bleby and Michael Read