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| Mar 6, 2026 | Lawyers warn over ChatGPT-generated workplace claims in Australia | Image: LightFieldStudios/Envato
Australian employment lawyers are warning workers to be cautious when using generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT to draft workplace claims, after a rise in submissions that appear to ... |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Stephen Roebuck (Peninsula) on the changing employment market for regulated workers | Stephen Roebuck is Associated Director of Consulting at Peninsula
Australia has a large and complex labour market. Employees are engaged under various contracts, modern awards, or types of employment such as permanent, part-time or casual. ... |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Australia’s ‘Right to Disconnect’ Laws Push Employers to Rethink Tech Use for Work-Life Balance | Technology could soon help IT leaders and their employers manage the workloads of tech teams and broader workforces within reasonable working hours, according to software firm Avaya.
Phil Zammit, Avaya’s vice president for Asia-Pacific and ... |
| Sep 3, 2024 | Why wage theft issues are so prominent in Australia | Profile Smart WFM
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As wage theft criminalisation laws draw closer, Australian government and industry need to come together to solve chronic wage theft issues that have plagued the nat... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | All work, no pay: Australia’s underpaid migrant workers need urgent reforms | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
The widespread underpayment of migrant workers in Australia is now well-documented. The vast majority never recover the wages they are owed.
In 2009, the federal “small claims” court process was est... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Chalmers rebuffs recession suggestions amid weak economic growth | L-R: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, RBA governor Michele Bullock and Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch. article-article-body
Australia is not expected to fall into a recession, the Treasurer has assured, even... |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Extra increase to the minimum wage on the cards for childcare and health professionals | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
The Fair Work Commission has boosted the wages of workers on awards by 3.75%, just a touch above the official inflation rate of 3.6%.
The increase will apply to fortnightly pay packets from next mon... |
| Jun 4, 2024 | “Most appalling” to blame lowest-paid workers for inflation: Tony Burke | Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke. Source: AAP Image/ Mick Tsikas article-article-body
Australia’s lowest-paid workers shouldn’t be blamed for inflation, the employment minister said, after the industrial umpire ann... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Personal insolvencies spike as business failures and economic strain take toll | Source: Adobe article-article-body
Data from the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) has found a significant rise in personal insolvencies for the March 2024 quarter. According to the report, there has been a 19.5% increase compa... |
| May 24, 2024 | Canva unveils major redesign and enterprise features for businesses | Source: Canva article-article-body
Australian unicorn Canva has announced a major platform redesign and a suite of new products geared towards business customers. The ‘glow up’ comes alongside a suite of additional tools as well as a not-ex... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | COSBOA: Cap minimum wage increase at 3% in “cost of doing business” crisis | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
The minimum wage should not rise any more than 3% as small businesses slog through a “cost of doing business crisis”, says the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA).
In its submi... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Is it legal for businesses to spy on employees through work computers? | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
The COVID pandemic stimulated an irreversible shift in where, when and how we work. This 21st-century model of working – dubbed the “new normal” – is characterised by increased flexibility and produc... |
| Oct 10, 2023 | Workers Are ‘Coffee Badging’ To Protest Return-To-Office Mandates, While Bosses Spy On Them At Home | Coffee badging involves employees going into the office building briefly, usually to grab a coffee ... [+] or socialize with co-workers, before leaving again.getty |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Woolworths sheds light on 'dark store' ecommerce operations | A case over how to classify workers in Woolworths “dark stores” and ecommerce fulfilment centres is exposing some of the inner workings of the facilities, including the proportion of orders handled by automated systems.
Woolworths wants wor... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Beware the Daylight Saving ‘by the clock’ pay trap, warns Ombudsman | With the clocks set to turn back at 3am on April 2, 2023, the Fair Work Ombudsman is urging small business owners to check enterprise agreements and not to get caught out by the end of daylight saving. How many hours employees are paid, wil... |
| Sep 19, 2022 | Why multi-employer bargaining is unlikely to boost wages — and could actually make it worse | Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's jobs and skills summit has seen some major announcements that are set to change the future of work. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch
One of the key measures announced to “get wages moving” in the wake of the federal ... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | July 1 legal changes your business needs to know about | As June 30 quickly approaches, SMEs around the country are busy making sure their tax affairs are in order. But amid the mad rush at the end of the financial year, it can be hard to keep track of all the other changes that will come into ef... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | The 5.2% minimum wage increase could have a major effect on all Australian workers | Barely a month ago Anthony Albanese was derided as a “loose unit” for endorsing a 5.1% increase in the minimum wage.
His rationale was, with 5.1% inflation, the incomes of the lowest-paid Australians at least shouldn’t be going backwards.
N... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Minimum wage rises 5.2% to $21.38 an hour, giving a boost to 2.7 million Australians as cost of living soars | The popular dining precinct on Degraves Street in Melbourne. Source: Unsplash/Steven Groeneveld.
Australia’s minimum wage will rise by 5.2% to $21.38 an hour, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ruled, giving a pay bump to some 2.7 million w... |
| May 19, 2022 | Real wages are shrinking. Here’s the proof | Source: Getty
Every three months the Bureau of Statistics releases the lesser-known cousin of the consumer price index. It’s called the Wage Price Index (WPI) and it records changes in the overall level of wages, in the same way the price i... |
| May 18, 2022 | Are real wages falling or growing? Let’s look at the evidence | Source: Shutterstock.
You would be forgiven for being unsure about whether the buying power of wages was rising or falling. On one hand, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says wages are going backwards.
On the other, Prime Minister Scott M... |
| May 13, 2022 | “Unconscionable”: Fair Work unleashes on pub chain that avoided paying penalty rates for 22 years | The Fair Work Commission has slammed an “archaic”, “unconscionable” zombie agreement that prevented employees of Queensland’s largest hospitality group from being paid penalty rates, leaving one underpaid $7000 for hours worked.
Commissione... |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Defence told to reinstate employee who stored data on personal devices | A Department of Defence employee who was sacked for storing images from an internal network on his personal devices was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
In a decision published last week, the commission sided with Phi... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Qantas Airways : INTERNATIONAL SEEKS TERMINATION OF CREW AGREEMENT TO RESOLVE CRITICAL ROSTERING CHALLENGE | Qantas International has applied to the Fair Work Commission to terminate its Long Haul Cabin Crew agreement as a last resort to change restrictive and outdated rostering processes. There are no job losses associated with the proposed termi... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | If I catch COVID-19 at work, what are my rights? What employees are entitled to if they get sick on the job | The transition to ‘living with COVID’ makes contracting the virus at work a distinct possibility, even with high vaccination rates. So what are your rights as an Australian employee if you catch COVID-19, particularly if you believe you hav... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Has the end of JobKeeper cost Australia nearly 100,000 jobs? | Source: AAP/Bremdon Thorne.
At its peak, more than 3.8 million Australians were on JobKeeper — three in every ten Australian workers.
Adding in those workers already employed by government, it meant four in every ten received a paycheck tha... |
| May 18, 2021 | The Fair Work Commission has found that Deliveroo riders are employees in a landmark ruling that could have ‘huge implications’ for gig workers | The Fair Work Commission has found in favour of Diego Franco after he was dismissed by Deliveroo.
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has made a landmark ruling that could see a renewed push to recognising delivery riders as employees.
The FWC r... |
| Feb 5, 2021 | Can my boss make me get a COVID vaccination? Yes, but it depends on the job | As Australia prepares to roll out a national vaccination program – aiming for a 95 per cent uptake rate – big questions remain for employers and employees. Employers have a clear incentive to want employees vaccinated, to protect clients an... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | A company used Google ads to target sacked Australian workers, promising unfair dismissal payouts. Many clients say they were never paid. | An Australian company called Unfair Dismissals Direct has been using Google advertising to target recently sacked employees, promising to represent them in unfair dismissal claims on a ‘no win no fee’ basis.
But interviews with former clien... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | The Payment Times Reporting Scheme will come into effect on January 1: Here’s what SMEs need to know | Timelio co-founder Charlotte Petris. Source: supplied.
Payment terms to small business have become a contentious point and grabbed the attention of parliament to intervene.
Australian businesses have made a habit of paying their suppliers l... |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Algorithms are entrenching a power imbalance between employer and employee | Source: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters.
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL’s cold, if polite, refusal to open the pod bay doors in the 2001 film A Space Odyssey has become a defining warning about putting too much trust in artifici... |
| Jun 11, 2020 | Where has Australia relied most on JobKeeper? Treasury reveals application numbers by postcode | Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Discussion about the future of the Morrison government’s $70 billion wage subsidy program heated up on Thursday morning amid renewed calls for the program to be extended for some, while the Prime Minister and ... |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Who you gonna call? Confusion abounds for employers and workers in JobKeeper disputes | Who’s responsible for picking up the pieces when an eligible worker gets left out of the JobKeeper program?
That’s the question that’s been asked in the Fair Work Commission (FWC), the Senate, and on Australian Tax Office (ATO) forums over ... |
| Mar 14, 2018 | Minimum wage debate: What do small businesses want? | You can boost your conversion rate with a more streamlined website.
Australian unions are pushing for a sharp increase in the minimum wage, but business and retail associations say dramatically lifting wages will place small businesses in j... |
| Feb 15, 2018 | Are ‘almost 60%’ of small business owners paid ‘$50,000 or less’? | Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive James Pearson, speaking on Q&A. Source: ABC Q&A
By Janine Dixon and Jason Nassios, Victoria University
This article is part of The Conversation’s series, which fact-checks ... |
| Nov 30, 2017 | Man Fired for Using Bag of Chips to Hide from Employer's GPS Tracking | Have you ever looked at a bag of chips and thought, “That’s the perfect way to stop someone from geo-tracking me!”? Unless you’re MacGyver or an electrician with a serious penchant for golf, probably not. This is the story of the latter cas... |
| Nov 29, 2017 | Australian man uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block tracking by employer | Dump out your snacks, block your boss' tracker.
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| Sep 25, 2017 | How market forces and weakened institutions are keeping our wages low | By John Buchanan, University of Sydney
Within the political class there is a low level moral panic about low wages growth. The irony is that those lamenting this situation are simply witnessing the ultimate outcome of policies they have lon... |
| Sep 12, 2017 | Worker wins $8000 in compensation after being dismissed for admitting birthday drinks left her unable to work | Salmon producer Tassal has been ordered to pay a former employee $8200 in compensation after the company fired her for calling in sick on the afternoon of ANZAC Day this year, admitting she had “over indulged” and would not be coming to wor... |
| Jun 6, 2017 | Fair Work Commission decides on 3.3% increase to minimum wage | The full bench of the Fair Work Commission has handed down its decision on an annual increase to the minimum wage, deciding on a 3.3% increase to minimum pay packets from July 1.
Explaining the decision this morning, Fair Work Commission pr... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | Small business calls for caution on changes to the minimum wage | Small business operators are asking the Fair Work Commission to keep any increase to the minimum wage below the rate of inflation, arguing that larger increases could have a direct impact on the profitability of their sectors going forward.... |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Can businesses accept an employee’s resignation if it is given in the heat of the moment? | We know people can say or do things they don’t mean when they’re under pressure, feeling stress or are angry.
In rare incidences (often in the context of disciplinary meetings), an employee may indicate that they wish to resign, only to lat... |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Employees can now cash out annual leave, in win for employers dealing with excessive leave | Employees covered by most Australian workplace awards now have the option of cashing out some of their annual leave.
The change, which comes into effect this week, is due to the Fair Work Commission updating 112 modern workplace awards to r... |
| Mar 24, 2016 | Has the level of casual employment in Australia stayed steady for the past 18 years? | By Mark Wooden, University of Melbourne
While many different views will be expressed about the benefits of increasing or reducing flexibility to engage casuals, one indisputable fact is that the level of casual employment has not increased ... |
| Aug 9, 2015 | The dirty secret of penalty rate opponents: business is booming | The inconvenient truth of the penalty rates debate is that, far from being destroyed by penalty rates as employers and right-wing lobbyists claim, Australia’s cafe and restaurant sector is booming and in recent years has been one of Austral... |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Cutting penalty rates would create 40,000 jobs: Research | Small businesses are supportive of new research that suggests around 40,000 extra Sunday or public holiday jobs could be created if penalty rates were reduced.
The research, which features in the a submission to the Fair Work Commission by ... |
| Jun 25, 2015 | Rio Tinto worker loses unfair dismissal bid over safety breach and threat to take his boss to “f-cking court” | A former Rio Tinto worker has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he was unfairly dismissed over a safety breach, in another case showing it is possible to sack a worker who uses “colourful” language.
Trevor Godfrey had been employe... |
| Jun 25, 2015 | Terry White franchise loses unfair dismissal claim after Fair Work rules HR advice from head office didn’t come into play | A Brisbane Terry White Chemist franchise has lost an unfair dismissal case in the Fair Work Commission against a former employee despite having a valid reason to dismiss her, but the small business was saved from incurring a hefty payout be... |
| Jun 23, 2015 | Snoozing security guard wins job back after Fair Work rules he was unfairly dismissed | An Adelaide security guard who fell asleep at his post has won his job back before the Fair Work Commission.
Antony Mundy won his unfair dismissal claim against MSS Security and an order to be reinstated with the company in May, after a sup... |
| Apr 10, 2015 | The cost of putting two slabs of beer for the work Christmas party on the company credit card – jobless | An Adelaide plumbing manager has lost his unfair dismissal case before the Fair Work Commission after he was sacked for buying two slabs of beer for a company Christmas party with the business’ credit card.
James Farrelly owned and operated... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | The fast food industry crackdown coming: Be prepared | Now, as long time readers will know, your humble correspondent is no fan of paper-folding, time-wasting government bureaucrats.
Every day, an army of Kevin Rudd look-alikes and sound-alikes methodically marches to their regulation Canberra ... |
| May 2, 2013 | Unfair dismissal win for employees who created companies | Any person working on a business while employed by another company must be extremely careful while working on their idea or risk potentially devastating financial consequences, one legal expert warns, following a recent unfair dismissal dec... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | Employee wins unfair dismissal case despite calling his boss a “dickhead” | Small businesses have been reminded to follow unfair dismissal procedures to the letter, following a recent case in which an employee was found to have engaged in misconduct but wasn’t terminated fairly due to improper notice.
The warning c... |
| Jan 17, 2013 | Concreter sacked for “smirking” wins unfair dismissal case | A Melbourne concreter has won an unfair dismissal case against his employer, after the company fired him for allegedly smirking during a conversation reprimanding him for a safety violation.
The case has urged one industrial relations exper... |
| В Австралії компанія звільнила жінку за те, що та «дуже мало друкувала» на ремоуті | В Австралії компанія звільнила жінку за те, що та «дуже мало друкувала» на ремоуті
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Співробітницю страхової компанії в Австралії звільнили за те, що вона недостатньо друкує, працюючи віддалено. Її менеджер з... |
| Australian employers urged to check daylight savings rules before gaining ‘free’ hour of work | Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
The end of daylight savings time can be a headache for workers who forget to change their alarms. For some, even greater frustrations await.
Night-shift staff working when the clocks jump back an hour on the mo... |
| IT and engineering employers will soon be on the hook for overtime and penalty rates thanks to a new Fair Work decision | Source: Unsplash/Freestocks.
Tech workers, engineers, and medical researchers on the Professional Employees Award will soon be granted penalty rates for work conducted outside of ordinary hours, thanks to new amendments likely to impact ent... |
