Workplace relations


David Letterman’s boys’ club: a former Late Show writer tells all

In the wake of the David Letterman blackmail and sex scandal, one of the few women to ever write for Letterman dishes the dirt on the sexist and sexually-charged working environment in a tell-all piece for Vanity Fair

Why every entrepreneur should clean poo

Every boss should be willing to clean the company toilet, says entrepreneur Sahil Merchant. If you aren’t willing to get your hands dirty, employees won’t follow you when the shit hits the fan.

ABS engaged in brutal redundancy roll out

The Australian Bureau of Statistics management is engaging in a “brutal” redundancy process as part of its current cost-cutting drive.

Law firms revealed as discriminatory sweatshops. Shock.

A new report suggests law firms still discriminate against women and that those who work in them have little control over their work environment, writes Greg Barns.

The high and low laughs of Election 07

As the election campaign eases into its fourth year and we gather to learn how badly we’ve done in the exams, we pause to consider the highlights so far.

When I grow up I want to be an industrial relations consultant…

How careers nights have changed! South Australia’s peak business lobby, Business SA, is now offering seminars for university students on the new workplace relations system. A flyer circulated by the Careers & Employer Liaison Centre at Flinders University in Adelaide’s south invites students to the session early next month.