Wages growth appears to have peaked, putting to rest any suggestion of a wage-price spiral, economists say, amid debate about the persistence of high inflation.
Adrian Lowe
Wages have already been growing faster than inflation and that gap is expected to keep widening and underpin a recovery in household spending.
Poppy Johnston
One of Australia’s most powerful unions has set its sights on supermarket giant Aldi, promising to pursue the business ‘relentlessly’.
Duncan Evans
The startling truth about the gender pay gap in Australia has been revealed in a new study.
Nathan Schmidt
A bigger wage bump for workers in female-dominated industries will help bring the nation closer to equal pay, the Australian Council of Trade Unions says.
Woodside Energy chair Richard Goyder has copped a whack from proxy firm CGI Glass Lewis, which has recommended against his re-election at the company’s annual general meeting later this month.
Matt Mckenzie
Unions representing workers at Australia’s biggest grocery chains claim their members don’t earn enough to buy food at their own workplace.
Firefighters across Australia’s biggest airports including Perth will down tools later this month claiming years of severe understaffing poses a risk to traveller safety.
Simone Grogan
Notwithstanding an opportunity to trick those around you with an April Fool’s Day prank, today marks the start of a new fringe benefits tax year. But do you know the rules and what does and doesn’t qualify?
Nick Bruining
For some employees, special fringe benefit tax concessions available to their employer means salary packaging becomes a no-brainer, but it can still have a significant impact on your personal tax situation.
Australians will have fewer fresh vegetables on supermarket shelves if the minimum wage is increased again, industry groups claim.
For the third year in a row, the Government has told the Fair Work Commission is must make sure Australia’s lowest paid workers do not go backwards.
Katina Curtis
Staff at supermarket giant Coles have rubbished plans to overhaul the company’s enterprise agreement after widespread walkouts last year.
Those not paying close attention to their voluntary contributions to superannuation could be wasting almost $3400 a year when stage 3 tax cuts kick in on July 1. For many seniors, it could be much higher.
Regional travellers and fly-in, fly-out workers face more flight disruptions as hundreds of Network Aviation pilots vow to extend a strike over a pay dispute.
Aaron Bunch
Rob Scott says changes to the nation’s industrial relations regime are a ‘lowest common denominator approach’ and could be dangerous for the country.
Productivity has fallen again despite Australians working more than ever, with employers being blamed for not investing in the tools and resources to help capitalise on workers’ talents.
Regional travellers and fly-in, fly-out workers face travel disruptions as more than 200 pilots at a Qantas subsidiary walk off the job over a pay dispute.
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Adrian Lowe and Katina Curtis
Higher wages bills, rents, power prices and insurance are top of company bosses’ lists of growing costs that they say will likely dent revenue and profit over coming months.
Adrian Lowe and Cheyanne Enciso
The Woolworths chief executive has accumulated hundreds of thousands of shares and performance rights over his 13 years with the retailer.
Sean Smith
Premier Roger Cook has implored pilots and Qantas to use a sudden break from industrial action to put down their swords and come to an agreement so the State’s resources sector can keep moving.
Simone Grogan and Dylan Caporn
Aussie wages are continuing to grow, according to fresh data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday.
Courtney Gould
The strong labour market has been fuelling strong wage growth that's expected to temper in coming months.