Since leaving secure jobs in newsrooms, employment has been unstable for many former journalists – but job satisfaction has been surprisingly high.
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There is lingering anger among journalists made redundant that expertise and experience seem to have become disposable assets in newsrooms.
Past attempts to help Latrobe Valley workers weather economic changes haven't made a difference, so the closure of Hazelwood presents a challenge.
A simple 'you're fired!' just won't cut it.
Research shows pregnant women are still being discriminated against in unfair dismissal cases, when employers say they are redundant.
Barclays, Pearson, Virgin Media and others have announced big layoffs following poor results – research shows it could be bad strategy in the long-run.
Managing the decline of the steel industry is no easy task. So what are the options?
UPDATE: Workers for transport company 1st Fleet were handed redundancy notices when they arrived for work this morning, after the company ceased trading. Are we seeing something of this same attitude recently…
As if losing their jobs wasn’t bad enough in a contracting local economy, the 350 laid-off workers from the Toyota plant in Altona, also leave with the stigma of being a “low-productivity” worker or, colloquially…
More than 100 academic staff at the University of Sydney are set to lose their jobs after receiving emails to inform them…
Plans by the University of Sydney to post hundreds of letters to staff on a redundancy hit list on Monday afternoon are likely…
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Journalism, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in International Media and Journalism, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Journalism, La Trobe University
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Professor, School of Management, RMIT University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, University of Technology Sydney
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Walter Jarvis is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, UTS Master of Management; Lecturer in Managing, Leading & Stewardship, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Associate Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, Environmental Management and Sustainabilty, Federation University Australia
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Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Development, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Human Resource Management, City, University of London
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Lecturer in Organisation Studies, University of Huddersfield
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Research Associate, Women & Work Research Group, Business School, University of Sydney
