The decision will go some way to improve pay equity for young adults. But it will not directly address some other issues of fairness in the workplace.
- Professor of Employment and Industry, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
Know the rules so your side gig doesn’t spill over into your main employment.
The standard minimum age for work in Australia is 15 - but children can get a job before that. These are the rules.
To interview well, you need to be prepared, confident (but not arrogant) and stand out from other applicants. Sounding unprepared for a few classic questions puts you at a profound disadvantage.
Business groups have long warned that abolishing junior pay rates would be a devastating blow. But attitudes about how fair they are may be shifting.
When academics were asked to draw, write and reflect on their career journeys, the results were revealing. While men were free to focus on their careers, the picture was more complicated for women.
Women encounter many difficulties in cities that are products of male design and planning. We need to move past the practice of one group shaping our world on behalf of everyone else.
Cities aren’t just a male creation, but women’s contributions have been sidelined. There are ways we can rediscover and restore these women to their rightful place in the stories of our cities.
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