Workplace disputes
Opinion
Workplace culture
If you can’t spot the jerk at work, it might be you
There is a decent chance something you do is driving your colleagues nuts. Here’s how to avoid being that person.
- by Danielle Abril
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Analysis
Media & marketing
‘Sobering reality’: What the future for Australia’s media giants looks like
With mass job cuts across Australia’s largest media companies, is there a way out of the advertising downturn, or is it time to face up to a new normal?
- by Calum Jaspan
Analysis
Analysis
How to artfully deal with an office backstabber
There’s one lurking in every workplace, but dealing with them can be a harder task than it seems.
- by Nina Hendy
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
‘Thrilled’: Workers claim win after sackings from Black Star Pastry for wearing keffiyehs
The high-end bakery that sacked two baristas for wearing keffiyehs to work has settled the discrimination case under confidential terms. The workers are claiming victory.
- by Charlotte Grieve
Opinion
Workplace culture
How to give (and receive) feedback at work without upsetting people
Employees may cringe at the idea of getting feedback, but reports indicate many of us would like to get more than we do.
- by Téa Angelos
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Childcare
‘We were left in limbo’: Childcare boss accused of not paying workers on time
Tara Harper, a former educator at a Genius childcare centre, resigned after just five months, saying she could not live with the uncertainty of not being paid on time.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
‘Sleeping is not part of your job description’: Doctors warned against naps
Manning Base Hospital administration will apologise to junior doctors after removing a mattress from their break room.
- by Amber Schultz
Help, my boss asked me to lie to get a colleague fired
There are serious legal implications if someone is dismissed based on false information, writes Dr Kirstin Ferguson.
- by Kirstin Ferguson
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Scandal
Innocent men want justice from scandal-riven council a year after they were exonerated
The toxic workplace culture culminated in murder. Now two former employees at the scandal-riven Moira Shire say they’re still pursuing justice.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Ban bosses from blocking working from home unless they have a good reason: unions
ACTU secretary Sally McManus says sensible changes should be made to awards “that finally bring them into the reality of 2024”.
- by Angus Thompson
Lattouf says ABC management told her: ‘We’re taking you off-air’
Lawyers for the ABC over the alleged sacking of the broadcaster said she was “not a reliable historian” of what occurred at a meeting where she said she was dismissed.
- by Colin Kruger