Posts tagged "wage"

The average working week will blow out by two hours and wages will plummet 40% if Australia does not radically boost its productivity, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will say Thursday, sending a clear message that industry — including small businesses — must find an edge or fall behind.

Federal Circuit and Family Court found the former operators of a Perth cafe falsified pay slips, provided Fair Work with doctored wage documents and warned staff against speaking up.

The federal government is optimistic that amendments to its industrial relations reform package, including tweaks to its multi-employer bargaining plans, could secure its support in the Senate.

Women working together are a force to be reckoned with and will no longer accept second-rate treatment in any workplace, says The Executive Circle founder Shivani Gopal.

Australia's minimum wage will rise by 5.2% to $21.38 an hour, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Fast-food and retail workers will receive a pay rise from today, following a Fair Work Commission decision to increase award wages by 1.75%.

Labor leader Bill Shorten has appealed to the tills of small business in his budget reply, asking them to back sensible increases in wages.

The ACTU’s 'living wage' increase will almost certainly result in cost of living increases, a widespread loss of jobs and small business collapses.

Recent reports relating to unpaid internships are indicative of the pressures on young people entering the workplace to gain industry experience.

An enterprise agreement wasn't enough to prevent one Queensland-based employee from being underpaid by Bundaberg Refrigerated Transport.

Letting employees decide how much they get paid could be the future of wage negotiation, Smarkets chief executive Jason Trost believes.

  Federal employment minister Eric Abetz has acknowledged the frustration felt by many small business owners when it comes to employee wage…