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Can an employer, having first directed you to work from home, now turn around and mandate you don’t? Here's what the law says.

For Labor lobbyists, these are the years of plenty. For everyone else, not so much. 

The latest global report on the gender gap shows Australia reversing its recent sharp downward slide, reports Alan Austin.

Unions have extended strike ballots to cover the Wheatstone LNG platform, as they warn Chevron and Woodside are making “dumb industrial relations mistakes”.

If an organisation mandates their workers return to the workplace – whether exclusively or in part – it needs to provide clear guidelines.

Been told you can no longer work from home? In many cases, it's an order bosses can make. But you might be someone with a stronger case to argue for flexible work.

After ‘increasing casualisation’ was exposed as a myth, Labor and the unions have latched onto ‘the permanent casual worker loophole’. That’s just another myth.

Covers pre-2010 agreements that continue to operate.

NSW Premier Chris Minns and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have backed a day off if Australia wins the World Cup, but employers say “nice idea but no thanks”.

This year’s Women’s World Cup, which kicked off on July 20, 2023, has been drawing record viewers both in person and on television. As viewers watch these teams compete, many wonder...