Progress to close the gender pay gap appears slow and steady, but some of Australia’s biggest employers are being called on to take more action to improve equality in the workplace. Almost 5.9 million workers now have access to their company’s latest pay gap information after...
Young people see the housing market as being stacked against them, Australia’s housing minister says, as the Greens call for drastic changes to property tax concessions. Clare O’Neil continues to play a straight bat to suggestions the government is considering scaling back the capital gains discount...
More of the retirement savings of 14 million Australians will be invested in Canada under a landmark initiative signed in front of their visiting prime minister. Mark Carney kicked off his four-day Australian tour at an event in Sydney where the two nations’ super-sized pension funds...
In a time of climate change and strained housing affordability, sometimes it pays to think small. At just 50 square metres, the apartments and townhouses inside the Two Sisters development in North Melbourne are far smaller than the 236 sq m average Australian home – the...
Millions of Australian workers would receive an extra week of paid leave each year if a union push to change federal employment standards succeeds. The Australian Council of Trade Unions on Wednesday launched a bid to increase the standard annual leave entitlements from four to five...
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT VICTORIA’S PLAN TO LEGISLATE A RIGHT TO WORK FROM HOME: * Victoria’s Labor government has announced its plan to enshrine working from home into law in August * Under the proposed laws, private and public sector workers who can “reasonably” do their job...