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Small business groups have called on the government to create a COVID-19 vaccine checklist in a roundtable discussion held yesterday.

A roundtable discussion between the government, business leaders and unions sought to clarify questions around employer vaccination mandates.

Optus, Honey Birdette, Doordash ruled to have breached Ad Standards July 21, 2021 10:11 The latest round of determinations from the Ad Standards Community Panel found that advertising by Singtel Optus, Honey Birdette, and Doordash all breached the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) Code of Ethics. An advertisement by Optus featuring a forklift operator navigating a forklift drew complaints on the safe operation of such heavy machinery. A sample of comments provided by Ad Standards about the ad for Optus’ Business Connect Plans, which ran across on-demand television, sugg...

Transport Workers' Union TWU is criticising Lindsay Transport for an inadequate response to the death of one of its workers six years ago. Safe Work NSW has released information about undertakings it has forced Lindsay to comply with, including developing a safety app, following the fatality in October 2015 in Western Sydney. But the TWU says a substandard workplace agreement and the death of another driver three years ago, who was left dead for 10 hours on the underpass of a Brisbane motorway without the company even knowing he was missing, shows Lindsay has not changed its attitude to safet...

1.1 The Volunteer Program at the National Library of Australia (the Library) has been operating since 1989. The program offers the community an opportunity to play an active role in supporting and promoting the work of the Library. The Library values the important contribution that volunteers make through Front-of-House and Behind-the-Scenes volunteer projects. 1.2 The Library engages volunteers in tasks that, without their assistance, would not be undertaken or would not be completed for a considerable period of time. Volunteers are not used as an alternative to paid employment or to displ...