Today
Business fights back against ‘right to disconnect’ from work
Employers have come out in opposition to a Labor-Greens deal on a right to disconnect after warning it risks returning workplaces to rigid nine-to-five environments.
- David Marin-Guzman
Yesterday
CFMEU official gets bail over violent home invasion
Construction union organiser Edmond “Monty” Margjini has been accused of attacking a woman with a machete more than a decade ago.
- David Marin-Guzman and Tom Rabe
Billionaire taps into couples workforce with iron ore ‘love shacks’
Minerals Resources boss Chris Ellison says the company’s on-site accommodation for couples is as good as anything at a beachside resort in Broome.
- Brad Thompson
This Month
Koko Black and Subway ‘gaming the system’ in penalty rate deals: union
Luxury chocolatier Koko Black and Subway franchisees have been accused of trying to shortchange hundreds of workers by using legal loopholes that erode minimum rates.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why the work from home debate is entering a new phase
Australia’s top CEOs have accepted flexible work is here to stay. But almost four years on from the pandemic, there are growing questions about productivity, culture and career development.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- CFMEU
‘We can cause you grief’: Gatto’s warning to Melbourne developer
Underworld figure Mick Gatto has long played a role in the building industry, but rarely would people speak publicly about it, until now.
- David Marin-Guzman and Nick McKenzie
Lamb chops, clothes and cars held up in damaging ports dispute
Businesses have lashed governments’ indifference to ongoing port strikes, saying claims of no significant disruption to the economy are “ridiculous”.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Chanticleer CEO poll
Top CEOs tell PM to fix housing, improve planning to rescue growth
Australia’s top bosses have called on the prime minister to tackle the housing crisis and cut red tape to lift productivity and keep the economy firing next year.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
- Exclusive
- Workplace disputes
Union official boasts Burke won’t stop port strikes
A senior official from the maritime union has been recorded boasting that Labor has told the union it won’t intervene in the three-month port strikes.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Environmental protection
Unions line up to back offshore gas against environmental activists
The AWU and MUA say vulnerabilities in Australia’s approvals regime are being exploited to stop or delay major projects and must be changed to save jobs.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
DP World begs for ‘cool off’ as strikes cause more damage than hack
The stevedore argued for the Fair Work Commission to order a 90-day “cooling off” period to allow for talks with the Maritime Union of Australia
- David Marin-Guzman
ACCC says it’s too soon to regulate port fees
The competition watchdog has shied away from regulating so-called “access” fees charged by port stevedores despite industry profits surging to record highs.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Senate horse-trading sends small business the bill for workplace complexity
The IR changes – and the opaque way changes have been prosecuted – run roughshod over the government’s commitment to make life easier for small business.
- Luke Achterstraat
BHP strike threat could shut down five Qld mines
Critical BHP overseers are preparing to take industrial action that could shut down 70 per cent of the mining giant’s Queensland mines.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Labor has no grasp of Australia’s need to compete
Everything Anthony Albanese has done since the election betrays an utter indifference to sharpening the ability of a high-cost economy to compete in the global marketplace.
- The AFR View
‘The moment they come in’: Unions line up targets of IR changes
Qantas, BHP, warehouses, manufacturing and food and beverage processing will be the first to be targeted under Labor’s new labour hire laws, according to unions and employers.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Updated
- Workplace disputes
Miners to wage war against Labor after secret IR deal
Big business has been angered by a deal that splits the government’s Closing Loopholes Bill into two parts.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman and Tom McIlroy
CBA says ex-staffer’s claims should be ‘struck out as embarrassing’
CBA says the allegations it took adverse action against a former employee who complained about 60-hour work weeks is “liable to be struck out as embarrassing”.
- Lucas Baird
‘Frivolous’ flexible work claims a drain on business: retailer
E-commerce retailer New Aim was forced to defend court action from a recent hire who wanted to work remotely from New Zealand where her partner lived.
- David Marin-Guzman
University wage theft tops $159m: union tally
The majority of universities have now been involved in short-changing some 100,000 staff, with unions saying there is a crisis of accountability in the sector.
- David Marin-Guzman
