Business Advice

Workers yearn for creativity Almost 90% said they consider themselves creative, but only 63% said they are putting their creative abilities …

Employers should not assume they can terminate employees absent for long periods for reasons that are not work-related. By PETER VITALE. By…

It is folk lore in Melbourne. The best time to sell as the end of year approaches is between two major events – the end of the Australian…

The number of workplace agreements that flunk the fairness test has gone through the roof, with 442 agreements being put out of action in Se…

Attempts by Small Business Minister Fran Bailey to pull independent contractor groups into line appears to have met with some success, with …

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s case against Google, which threatens to set a worldwide precedent on the search giant…

It must be that time of the pseudo election campaign, when the pollies roll out promises to cut red tape. Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has p…

Questions are being raised about whether a proposal by Labor to allow “multi-employer collective bargaining”, which could provide a wind…

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has criticised a new study of WorkChoices that concluded people on Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) e…

Labor has moved to reassure thousands of independent contractors in the housing industry that their status would not be threatened under any…