Imagine a rival company has offered you an equivalent role at three times your salary if you quit your job and join them immediately. Would you follow Sonny Bill Williams's lead and sneak off...
Despite record low membership, unions will always have a role in the workplace, Employee Ombudsman Stephen Brennan says. Unions are reinventing themselves to respond to changing workplace...
People are writing to me again on the topic of "illegal" questions at job interviews. I first wrote about this topic in March but it seems there are still plenty of companies out there unfamiliar...
I've been shocked by some of the questions potential employers are asking during job interviews. More than one Ask Kate reader has been asked "her" age - yes, all the complaints were from...
I receive many questions about long service leave entitlements. There is no short answer to this question as entitlements differ depending on the state or territory you live in. In researching an...
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Law degrees open doors to all kinds of opportunity, writes Sophie Toomey -- most of them outside law itself. ANY recruiter you care to ask will tell you that a law degree is going to be good for...
Many companies do not know that under the Federal Government's new "WorkChoices" regulations employers were expected to keep records of the hours their employees worked. Employment lawyers Hunt...
