Yesterday
Federal public service has an ‘Asian penalty’ problem
A study has found there is built-in prejudice against staff from non-English-speaking backgrounds, meaning the senior end of the public service is almost entirely white.
- Tom Burton
This Month
How the golf quarter-zip became the 2023 Wall Street uniform
Like the polo shirt before it, the style is yet another putting-green-to-conference-room crossover hit. Even New York financiers are getting in on the action.
- Ashley Fetters Maloy
Super fund CEOs put ASX on notice over workplace conditions
Industry super funds are using their $3.5 trillion asset pool to influence companies on decent work conditions, secure contracts and banning sexual harassment.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Australian economy
How to get fiscal dividend from a jobs, skills and training virtuous cycle
Reforms in vocational and higher education, and migration, can realistically aim to promote economic growth and would more than repay the upfront investment cost.
- Peter Dawkins
FX firm Convera says bullying claim ‘vague, misdirected’
Convera argued the allegations reflected ‘grievances on the part of the applicant that are variously vague, misdirected and irrelevant’.
- Lucas Baird
BHP urged to hit exec pay for $445m payroll blunder
Proxy advisers reckon BHP has gone soft on senior executives over a $445 million payroll blunder that shortchanged 34,000 past and present employees.
- Peter Ker
Yes campaign missed an opportunity with Chinese-Australians
Prominent Chinese-Australians say members of their community are more likely to trust local leaders than politicians, and the Yes campaign could have done much better in the referendum.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
Women lawyers face barriers from client demands
‘Primitive notions’ of what a ‘good’ lawyer looks like are holding back the career prospects of women in the legal industry.
- Maxim Shanahan
Lawyers, barristers put on notice over sexual harassment
Non-compliance could result in lawyers losing their practicing certificates or the disbarment of barristers, the profession’s watchdogs have warned.
- Hannah Wootton
FX firm ‘significantly overcharged’ start-up Koala, ex-staffer alleges
Foreign exchange trader Convera overcharged mattress company Koala and demanded the will of late music industry legend Michael Gudinski, a new claim alleges.
- Lucas Baird
What makes you fatter – office life, or WFH?
An exercise app tracked 2000 hybrid workers, comparing their activity while working from home with a typical day at the workplace. The results may surprise you.
- Jack Rear
Hancock, Lynas claim labour hire laws a risk to mine projects
The CEOs of key WA miners told a Senate inquiry the government’s labour hire laws will threaten billions of dollars in investment, but later admitted the laws do not apply to them.
- David Marin-Guzman
Women are asking for promotion, but men keep getting them: study
Men are promoted based on potential, but women must first prove their worth, the study and survey of US and Canadian companies found.
- Ella Ceron and Emily Chang
‘No silver bullet’: Is the childcare system broken?
Childcare in Australia is among the most expensive in the OECD and government subsidies have increased. But operators don’t appear to be rolling in profits.
- Euan Black and Liam Walsh
Tony Burke’s department moves to strike
Staff at the department dealing with the government’s sweeping industrial relations bill could be walking off the job over pay within weeks.
- David Marin-Guzman
Bosses could shun bargaining to avoid ‘same pay’ laws: union
The Australian Workers’ Union has echoed business concerns in warning Labor’s labour hire laws will act as a “clear disincentive” to enterprise bargaining.
- David Marin-Guzman
Managers see gender equality progress, as workers stall
Businesses with more advanced strategies to address gender disparity consistently saw greater performance on participation and pay equality
- Maxim Shanahan
How these six CEOs are using AI in their businesses
It is clear that corporate Australia is only at the beginning of its journey with the technology, amid an era defined by low productivity.
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
‘More Ted Lasso than Elon Musk’: lessons from Magpies’ success
The way premiership coach Craig McRae has gone about changing the culture at Collingwood offers valuable insights for executives and CEOs in the modern workplace.
- Patrick Durkin
The Glassdoor post that spelt out Airwallex grief
Former staff say they felt partly motivated to write more negative reviews because they believed newer employees were being encouraged to write positive ones.
- Lucas Baird and Jonathan Shapiro
