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The real issue is whether we are doing enough to tackle the psychosocial risks that exist within our workplaces.

Workplace MattersPremiumWorkplace wellbeing needs more than a healthy spin

Free fruit, gym memberships and lunchtime yoga are no substitute for a healthy workplace. Employers must tackle the excessive workloads and poor management putting staff wellbeing at risk.

Gary Martin

Fruit bowls and yoga won’t fix the workplaces making staff sick, WA business leaders say. The pressure reaches the top, with one female chief executive revealing extra locks had been installed to protect her.

Workplace MattersPremiumExhaustion is no badge of honour, WA bosses warn

Fruit bowls and yoga won’t fix the workplaces making staff sick, WA business leaders say. The pressure reaches the top, with one female chief executive revealing extra locks had been installed to protect her.

Ryan Johnson

Australia’s workplace watchdog has warned employees to get their leave applications in early as young men drive a massive 84 per cent spike in requests for time off ahead of the Grand Theft Auto 6 launch.

EntertainmentGrand Theft Sickie: Warning over mass staff gaming exodus

Australia’s workplace watchdog has warned employees to get their leave applications in early as young men drive a massive 84 per cent spike in requests for time off ahead of the Grand Theft Auto 6 launch.

Charlton Hart

Paul Parolo

MiningPremiumIdentity of grandfather killed on WA mine site revealed

A 75-year-old man who died at Regis Resources’ Duketon gold mine has been remembered as a doting grandfather. 

Adrian Rauso

The Worsley alumina refinery.

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Alumina workers set to strike over demands for higher pay

Unions hope to disrupt production from South32’s Worsley alumina refinery near Bunbury with a staff strike next week. 

Adrian Rauso

Officers are targeting employers of workers on subclass 482 visas — a key ticket that allows businesses to sponsor overseas staff to fill skilled jobs including chefs.

RetailPremiumFair Work, Border Force swoop on Perth cafes and restaurants

Workplace inspectors and Border Force officers have launched snap checks targeting more than 60 Perth businesses over migrant workers’ pay and compliance with visa rules.

Ryan Johnson

More than 1200 jobs at Canva are on the line as the tech giant faces slowing growth. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

BusinessPremium'Existential' AI threat triggers Canva's mass job cuts

Graphic design giant Canva will cut or relocate 1200 workers as it looks to combat slowed growth and an artificial intelligence-wrought industry shake-up.

Nick Wilson

Some workplaces are all ears when it comes to asking employees what they think, but far less interested in doing anything about what they hear.

Workplace MattersPremiumAsking for feedback is not the same as using it

Some workplaces are all ears when it comes to asking employees what they think, but far less interested in doing anything about what they hear.

Gary Martin

‘Dr Jags’ — as he is referred to in campaign material — cofounded the company, which at one stage operated 45 general practitioner clinics across the State.

Herd on the TerracePremiumLabor MP Dr Jags in Spectrum stoush

It’s stethoscopes at 10 paces in the Supreme Court as Riverton Labor MP Jags Krishnan seeks to block the sale of WA medical empire Spectrum Health. And BHP is handing out the pay rises, to its board at least.

Fortescue is already facing a class action lawsuit centred on sexual harassment at the company’s Pilbara iron ore mines.

MiningPremiumFortescue fires executive over sexual harassment, bullying

The iron ore giant sacked one of its top executives after a legal investigation substantiated allegations of sexual harassment and bullying.

Adrian Rauso

Victor Goh is the mysterious businessman behind the huge EQWest apartment and hotel towers at the quay.

Commercial PropertyPremiumConstruction union finally comments on EQWest disputes

WA’s CFMEU branch has offered tepid criticism of the contractual battles at Elizabeth Quay after reportedly declaring developer Victor Goh a “hero” at a rally last week.

Matt Mckenzie

Instead of seeing flexible work arrangements as something associated with working away from the office, employers must recognise that people’s need for flexibility can change as their lives change.

Workplace MattersPremiumHow to make work fit around life’s ups and downs

Instead of seeing flexible work arrangements as something associated with working away from the office, employers must recognise that people’s need for flexibility can change as their lives change.

Gary Martin

Airport security staff are demanding more full time jobs, fairer rostering and no cuts to hours. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Workplace MattersPremiumSecurity staff set for second strike at major airport

Hundreds of security workers are expected to walk off the job for the second time in a day at a major airport, with travellers warned to expect delays.

Nick Wilson and Sarah Spina-Matthews

In the past year, 12 women took the helm of an ASX300 company, including Tania Archibald at BlueScope, Jayne Hrdlicka at Endeavour and Liz Westcott at Woodside

Workplace MattersPremiumSenior women leaders report rising backlash to gender equity

There is growing opposition to gender equity in workplaces, according to damning new figures that also reveal progress for women in executive leadership has gone backwards.

Cheyanne Enciso

Workers in the disability sector could be among those to get a boost in pay. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Social AffairsPremiumPayday looms for undervalued Aussie workers

The federal government has announced a substantial payout to workers in the health, disability and community service sectors.

Catherine Bouris

Blue man sign and pink woman sign on balance wooden seesaws for equal business human right and gender concept by 3d rendering.

Workplace MattersPremiumWhy part-time work is an important gender diversity lever

Corporate Australia needs to start looking at how senior and leadership roles could be done part-time if it wants to boost gender diversity at the top, think tank Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre says.

Cheyanne Enciso

Chris Bradley, one of a handful of directors at the McKinsey Global Institute, its high-profile business and economic research unit, was removed from that role.

Workplace MattersPremiumMcKinsey strips partner of leadership role after posts

McKinsey removed a senior partner from his leadership role at the firm’s research arm after he posted online comments questioning the uphill battle female executives face in the workplace.

Matthew Boyle and Ambereen Choudhury

Chinese-owned Premier supplies taxpayer-owned Synergy’s coal power stations.

EnergyPremiumCollie coal workers on borrowed time green-light strike

Workers at Premier Coal’s Collie mine have voted down a pay deal and pulled the trigger on imminent strike action.

Matt Mckenzie

The need to protect employees from psychosocial hazards and support their mental wellbeing is now equally important.

Workplace MattersPremiumWhy our WA leaders also need to move with the times

High levels of emotional intelligence will be critical for future success while leaders will also need to recognise that one size no longer fits all when it comes to ways of working. 

Gary Martin

Participants in the latest CEO Voice event at the Australian Institute of Management WA.

CEOsPremiumFuture-proofing the next generation of WA workers

From AI and skills shortages to mental health claims and workplace laws, some of WA’s senior business leaders have weighed what the next generation of bosses needs to learn.

Ryan Johnson

Doctors across Victoria's public hospital system will walk off the job for four hours on Thursday. (Julian Smith/AAP PHOTOS)

Workplace MattersPremiumDoctors to walk out as fears over patients' safety grow

A state's public hospital system will be without thousands of doctors for four hours later this week as they bid to win fairer pay and safer workloads.

Eleanor Wilson

TWU national secretary Michael Kaine said there were two strikes at Sydney airport. NewsWire

AviationPremiumTravel chaos looms as Qantas airport staff walk out

Two separate strikes have hit Australia’s major airports, threatening to cause chaos at airports across the country on Thursday.

Cameron Micallef

Loan enquiries from the State’s large businesses jumped 25.6 per cent in August compared with a year earlier, well above the national increase of 19.2 per cent.

BankingPremiumWA businesses chase loans to stay afloat

WA’s biggest businesses are scrambling for more credit but holding off buying new equipment, raising concerns companies are borrowing to keep the lights on rather than bankroll expansion.

Ryan Johnson

The CEO Institute’s latest Pulse report found just 8.5 per cent of Australian business leaders surveyed rated their companies highly at turning strategy into results. Four in 10 said getting work done depended heavily on particular leaders or teams.

CEOsPremiumThe indispensable trap: Why bosses risk missing sales

Business owners risk missing sales as their most experienced staff get bogged down in clunky systems and competing projects, new research suggests.

Ryan Johnson