Tag: Workers

A new report from Deputy found that in 2023, all major industries experienced an unprecedented rise in the number of shift workers working multiple jobs.

The peak industry organisation for vegetable and potato producers, AUSVEG, has backed the Federal Government’s announcement of the next step of reforms to the Pacific Australia Labor Mobility (PALM) initiative. 

The CEO of a national workforce management company is calling on Australian employers to rethink the need for their people to be sitting in an office five days a week, instead focusing on what individual workers need to achieve without a set time allocated. APG Workforce CEO Glenn Redman says his organisation has employed many […]

Federal and State governments are being urged to protect the mature workers who are especially vulnerable to job losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns. Suggestions are for the government to continue to pay a higher weekly benefit to mature workers or lower the aged pension age due to the increased competition now for jobs. Gold […]

2020 could be the year for many Australian workers to take charge of their own career. According to research, almost two in five Australian workers are dissatisfied with their current job, while a further one in three are considering quitting to start their own business this year. The beginning of this week marked the arrival of […]

As it is seen in mainstream discussions in recent years, wage theft is the practice of denying workers their rightful wages or benefits in contemporary workplaces. It is recognised in various forms, including failing to pay wages, overtime, “off-the-clock” works and refusing employees’ entitlements such as vacation times and sick leave. Since last year, prominent […]

Byline: Arthur Hambas, Lawyer at McDonald Murholme When Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews commented that “every worker has the right to get a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work”, it drew the public’s attention to an issue that has been plaguing a significant number of Australian workers for some time.   While most employers do […]

81% of ANZ workers believe open plan is important to productivity and engagement, new research reveals Despite this, workplace distractions affect 99% of local employees Younger generations better at using technology to avoid distraction More than half (57 percent) of workers across Australia and New Zealand still prefer open plan offices over privacy-oriented floor plans, […]

What made the news this week?

The Federal Circuit Court has fined a former owner of the Crust pizza outlet in Maroubra $3825 for refusing to reimburse 8 underpaid workers. The 8 delivery drivers and sales employees who worked for the former owner, Sotirios Theocharidis, were underpaid a total of $25,995 in 2013. The underpayments were discovered by the Fair Work […]