Workplace
How to find gender pay gap data – once a tightly held secret – on your company
The publication of wage gap data for the country’s 5000 biggest businesses for the first time will arm employees with valuable information about their position in the workplace.
- by Lisa Visentin
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Opinion
Careers
What do young workers want? A pay rise, or a house
Employers are obsessed with knowing what younger generations want. More often than not, it’s a pay rise.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Work therapy
I don’t like my new job, but I can’t resign. What should I do?
Never underestimate the importance of having someone you can vent about your workplace to.
- by Jonathan Rivett
I just got a pay rise, but it doesn’t feel like enough. What can I do?
When your salary increase doesn’t match inflation, it’s worth having a conversation with your manager, says Dr Kirstin Ferguson.
- by Kirstin Ferguson
Opinion
Employment
There’s nothing new about the right to disconnect
Nostalgia is a powerful political force, but it should be distrusted – left and right – as a motivation for political change.
- by Sean Kelly
Analysis
Analysis
Is the right to disconnect Gen Z’s workplace legacy? It’s complicated
Will the drawing of boundaries and muting of notifications be Generation Z’s workplace legacy? It’s complicated.
- by Mary Ward
The new hires are clocking off early, while the rest of us are stuck at our desks
I think your boss was naive to think hiring new people on better conditions wouldn’t create a highly divisive culture, writes Dr Kirstin Ferguson.
- by Kirstin Ferguson
Analysis
Analysis
Bankers, lawyers and tech workers most likely to be in AI firing line
For years, people working in warehouses worried that automation could eliminate their jobs. But new research shows white-collar workers have the most to fear from AI.
- by Steve Lohr
Men’s group accused of harassment, sexist slurs at water park day out
The group, who had booked out the whole park to host 800 men and boys, asked that female staff be excluded for the day.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Clare Sibthorpe
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Industrial relations
Bosses to face penalties if they fail to stop calling workers after hours
A right to disconnect has been inserted into Labor’s latest industrial reforms, under which employers face fines or criminal sanctions if they fail to comply.
- by Angus Thompson
Multiple women have been harassed in my workplace. What can we do?
The treatment you and others have experienced is completely unacceptable, illegal and needs to stop, writes Dr Kirstin Ferguson.
- by Kirstin Ferguson