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ACTU secretary Sally McManus says increasing annual leave will help make up for decades of shortfalls in real wage growth.

Unions demand Albanese hand every worker 25 per cent more holidays

An extra week of paid annual leave to compensate for unpaid overtime would be the first increase to the entitlement since the 1970s.

  • Millie Muroi

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A tandem jump is conducted by a skydiving instructor.

Should some jobs not be outsourced? Skydiving instructors think so

Skydivers walked off the job at jump sites across the east coast last week over a deal that would pay visa workers less than the company’s full-time employees.

  • Chris Zappone
Optus executives will appear before a Senate inquiry into a deadly outage of the Triple Zero network.

Optus to cut 200 jobs after horror year

Australia’s second-largest telco is attempting to reset following a catastrophic year, but is cutting jobs when it has already come under fire over outsourcing.

  • David Swan
Firefighters have been locked in a dispute with the government since March last year.

Firefighters to escalate pay fight as some leave service for safer, better-paid roles

The lengthy pay and conditions fight started in March last year, but 22 meetings and several rejected offers and counteroffers later, the government and the United Firefighters Union of WA are no closer to striking a deal.

  • Hamish Hastie
Qantas Airways suffered a data breach in July and the hackers demanded $1 million.

Qantas, union at loggerheads over job security in AI-era

The ASU wants to know whether a tranche of job cuts related to technology improvements are the first of a multi-tranche redundancy plan.

  • Chris Zappone
Staff reductions are flowing through Qantas headquarters in Sydney.

Qantas job cuts hit headquarters amid leadership rejig

As Qantas implements a restructure announced last year, some employees are this week learning if their jobs will be cut.

  • Chris Zappone and Millie Muroi
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Return to sender: Red faces (and bodies) over Australia Post uniform bungle

The multimillion-dollar rollout of new high-vis shirts for posties has been halted after complaints that supposedly high-SPF fabric is see-through and leaving workers sunburnt.

  • Grant McArthur
Australian Education Union Victorian branch president Justin Mullaly leads a teachers protest at Ben Carroll’s office in Niddrie. 19 June 2025.

State school teachers threaten to strike as pay talks stall

The teachers’ union says members will stay home from 1600 government schools next month without concessions from the state government on pay.

  • Noel Towell and Jackson Graham
As well as finding and reporting stories, ABC staff are required to fill out an extensive questionnaire about who they have featured in reports on the Voice.

ABC staff move to strike after pay deal talks stall

Hundreds of unionised workers voted unanimously in favour of a protected action ballot on Friday, the first step towards a walkout.

  • Calum Jaspan
Saurav Risbud, who quit his job at big four consulting firm Bain last year, says long work hours were the norm.

Why the people working 70 and 80-hour work weeks don’t push back

While a standard work week is 38 hours, those in industries such as consulting and investment banking can rack up more than double those hours. While some quit, most will never speak out.

  • Millie Muroi