Industrial News 27 September 2026
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers take home 84 cents for every dollar the average Australian worker earns. Across a year, that is an 18% income gap, or close to two months of work handed over to the boss for nothing. The figures come from Towards Indigenous pay parity, released on 24 September by the Centre for Indigenous People and Work (CIPW) and Indigenous Business Australia. The average First Nations worker earns $41.59 an hour against $49.46 for the whole workforce. Over a...
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Industrial News 15 September 2026
Two years after the right to disconnect became law, someone finally tested it. On 19 August 2026 the South Australian Employment Tribunal handed down its decisions in Elliot v Mcguire [2026] SAET 107 and Kalleske v Mcguire [2026] SAET 106. Deputy President Stephen Lieschke found that a salon owner who sent her teenage apprentices Snapchat and TikTok videos outside their hours, made their next shift hostile when they did not reply, kept calling one of them while she was having urgent medical...
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Story 17 August 2026
A delegate finds a casual on a temporary visa is missing every penalty rate she is owed — and she is begging him not to raise it. What would you do?
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Story 17 August 2026
For a month, people who agree on almost nothing found themselves agreeing on one thing — from Lagos to Liverpool to Lima, all quietly hoping for the same result.
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