Sacking of James Hardie CEO shows boards are favouring an honesty approach to terminations
The shock dismissal of James Hardie boss Jack Truong is the latest in a series of previously unthinkable public terminations of CEOs over their behaviour.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has found building materials company James Hardie discriminated against a job applicant with a shoulder injury by re…
Economy-wide spending rose in April but at the slowest pace in seven months, raising questions about Australia’s path of recovery. The Co…
Workplace directors must ensure they go the extra mile and investigate ambiguous statements or documents, experts say, in response to the Hi…
Harvey Norman’s pre-tax profit for the first nine months of the financial year is down 25% as sales continued to fall in the first quarter…
US President Barack Obama has praised the decades-long relationship between the United States and Australia in a speech to Federal Parliamen…
Japan has slipped into a technical recession, as consumer spending and new exports fall, although rebuilding from the earthquake and tsunami…
The Reserve Bank has warned it will ignore some aspects of weakness in the economy when it comes to setting interest rates, leading economis…
James Hardie has said it will appeal a Federal Court decision upholding a ruling the company pay back taxes of about $339 million. The …
The ‘hot button’ issue on global financial markets is deflation, or falling prices. This issue has been brewing for some time with a rash of…
The Federal Government’s debate in the Senate over proposed reforms for the telecommunications industry is set to continue even into next ye…
Former James Hardie chief executive Peter Macdonald has been banned from managing a company for 15 years and fined $350,000 after being foun…
