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The besieged national airline is facing another major crisis as 1000 Qantas staff prepare to strike amid failed negotiations over a 12% pay rise that management called unaffordable.

There are good reasons to aim to regulate gig economy workers as contractors, rather than attempting to bring them under the umbrella of being employees.

Uber Australia's agreement with the Transport Workers’ Union is a statement of principles that re-regulate work in the Australian rideshare and food delivery industry.

Incoming secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Natalie James says companies not offering flexible work arrangements risk losing people.

In a landmark ruling, a HungryPanda worker, who died after he was hit by a bus in Sydney while working for the company, has been deemed an employee and not a contractor.

Fostering the co-operation needed to deliver inclusive growth will require overcoming a history of bad habits and soured relationships at the enterprise, industry and national levels.

At this election, Labor campaigned on the need to address three key issues: wage stagnation, insecure jobs and gender inequality.

"The complexity of the awards that outline minimum pay rates and conditions of employment result in many employers unknowingly underpaying their workers," writes Pitcher Partners' Sudha Viswanathan.

Millions of Australian may soon have access to 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave a year, after the Fair Work Commission gave provisional backing to the new entitlement.

The Fair Work Commission has slammed an "archaic" zombie agreement that prevented employees of Queensland’s largest hospitality group from being paid penalty rates.

We are seeing the first real focus during an election on workplace relations since the ill thought-out Work Choices campaign helped force the Coalition out of government in 2007.  

Any pay rise will create increased costs for employers, who will pass that onto consumers. This will increase inflation and the cycle will continue.