Many employers remain unaware of the law around employing refugees and migrants – even if they could help fill staff shortages.
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Mandatory reporting could help highlight the ethnicity pay gap in much the same way that gender pay gap reporting does.
A forum of Australian tech companies this week was told the government's encryption laws could see Australian jobs moved overseas. Labor's promised to "fix" the laws, but that could be too late.
The living wage – a renamed and more generous minimum wage - would directly benefit about one in ten workers – some 1.2 million people, Labor says.
Australian evidence backs up the governments contention that immigration boosts rather than cuts living standards.
But the ALP has not put a figure on the amount it believes would be appropriate.
The original New Deal caused a "great acceleration" in carbon emissions. How will a Green New Deal forge its own legacy?
Workplaces the world over tune their thermostats to 22C, because this supposedly optimises mental performance. But the factors that underpin a productive office are much more complicated.
The economic impact of losing big business.
The Finnish experiment will only fuel further debate on whether or not universal basic income is a good idea.
Amazon nixed plans to build a headquarters in Long Island City after some New Yorkers questioned the wisdom of offering billions in tax breaks in exchange for job promises. A Texas study suggests they had reason to worry.
It's been a decade since the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and blacks still haven't fully recovered financially, leaving them unprepared if another recession hits.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen will pitch to many workers' discontented with their lot, declaring in his first economic speech of the year that these people are being denied “a fair go”.
Research shows that job interviews are a seriously flawed way of finding out how a potential employee might perform in the future.
In a major economic address in Brisbane on Tuesday, Morrison will point out that at the coming election only half of those of voting age
will have been through a recession in their working lives.
There's a notable disparity between the rate of employment for people with and without disabilities, especially in certain pockets of the US.
An obsession with GDP growth fails to account for some of society's most pressing problems.
As robotics, IoT, and other automation technologies grow in sophistication and commercial feasibility, jobs at nearly every skill level will be impacted.
The government has been partially closed since Dec. 22, making it the second-longest shutdown on record. A finance professor who studied the 2013 shutdown explains the economic impact.
Flexible working is seen as a solution to the gender pay gap but cultural norms are getting in the way.
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