Work

A CQUniversity study has brought together international researchers to figure out how shift workers can best get a decent amount of sleep.

The opposition says it will attempt to amend the government's measure to raise the Jobseeker rate by $40, and instead lift the threshold before benefits begin to be reduced, saying it would encourage more people into work.

A new survey involving hundreds of Australian parents finds workplaces aren't communicating with staff while on parental leave, and are changing their jobs without consultation.

The reality is these shiny stone benchtops are not a necessity and too many of our tradies who work with them are getting sick or dying, writes Adele Ferguson.

A New South Wales Far South Coast doctor and clinic owner forks out $30,000 to take a much-needed three-week holiday.

A heavy steel rod narrowly missed a worker at a Cross River Rail construction site in Brisbane on the same day a man fell 12 metres from another site run by the same contractor, the union claims. 

Hermann Wittmer, 65, is one of the founding doctors of his region's only advanced cardiology unit. But he says red tape and a shortage of Australian-trained doctors is putting the service at risk.

While some employers begin to try and get workers back into the office, research has found working from home can benefit people with a disability.

Jack Robertson has been a casual care worker for 12 years, but he says he won't be looking for the permanent role he could be eligible for under a proposed legal change.

Disability advocate Jane Turnbull says traditional resumes unfairly disadvantage people who struggle with writing, but she has come up with a fairer option for people with disabilities.

Behavioural economics is a discipline that seems blind to empathy. The care with which Robodebt letters were designed — and the so-called science behind those devastating design decisions — showed what it could do, writes Peter Martin.

Three years after entering voluntary administration, the airline is now going public and unions are seeking better conditions for the company's workers.

CEDA chief executive, Melinda Cilento, says the government should focus on supporting workers given the unprecedented size of the energy transition.

Casual workers doing regular hours will soon find it easier to convert to permanent employment, if they chose.

Unions have welcomed the government's latest planned changes to Australia's industrial relations laws. Business groups are less convinced.

More than 200 Pacific workers have been left in limbo after their employer Linx Employment agreed to end its participation in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme amid worker treatment investigations.

The government says new changes would closes a legal "loophole", offering more than 850,000 casuals who work regular hours a new pathway to permanent work. 

Iranian migrant Kambiz Seyedghalouri and his wife, Sara Minagar, leave behind the political turmoil of their home country to open a chocolate and gelato franchise in Wollongong. In 2021, Iran supplied the second-largest number of business migrants to Australia.

Is the industry really same name, totally different game? The ABC takes a look at how skimpy work has survived in regional Australia. 

Scantily clad barmaids known as ‘skimpies’ arrived on Kalgoorlie-Boulder's pub scene in the 1970s, but how are skimpies still a thing in the #MeToo era?

As we trickle back to our offices, I've witnessed a few of these encounters in lunch spots around the city: workers who are colleagues, but who obviously like each other enough to go and have lunch and shoot the breeze, writes Virginia Trioli.

Australia's buoyant jobs market means many companies can't fill positions fast enough, and they're turning to retirees to fill the gap.

Stress, moral disengagement and becoming too complicit are all risk factors for creating an unethical workplace.

Australia's buoyant jobs market is so far easily absorbing a record migrant intake, with many employers turning to retirees to fill vacant positions.

Australia's unemployment rate surprises experts by dipping back to 3.5 per cent, with almost 33,000 extra people gaining jobs last month.