News & Views Women ask for pay rises & promotions as often as men: McKinsey & Lean In confirm The fifth annual McKinsey & Lean In survey provides a snapshot of life in corporate America for women. It shows discrimination remains rife.
Employers Hewlett Packard Enterprise to offer six months paid parental leave to ALL new parents Hewlett Packard Enterprise joins the paid parental leave equality movement, offering a massive six months of paid leave to all new parents.
News & Views Why Australian employees aren’t ‘too sensitive’ as Ita Buttrose suggests In an interview yesterday, ABC Chair Ita Buttrose suggested that Australia had lost its “larrikin spirit” in a bid to be politically correct.
Business Why new Religious Freedom Laws are terrible for employers Proposed Religious Freedom Laws could stop Australian businesses fostering inclusive cultures, eroding any business benefit derived from inclusion.
Business No business as usual as thousands of businesses support climate protests As climate protests happen all over the world today, thousands of businesses have pledged their support for workers to participate.
Business This employer’s banned questions about salary in job interviews to help keep gender pay gaps closed Asking job candidates what they currently earn merely perpetuates the gender pay gap. It’s time we quit asking these questions in job interviews
News & Views Konica Minolta removes ‘irrelevant titles’ to offer ALL new parents paid leave All new parents at Konica Minolta Australia can now access 12 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of whether they’re a ‘primary’ or ‘secondary’ carer.
News & Views The ‘wait’ for leadership parity won’t happen with the number of female CEOs going backwards The number of female CEOs leading ASX 200 organisations has gone backwards, dropping from 14 to 12 over the past year. Waiting for centuries is pointless.
News & Views ‘It’s not you, it’s the workplace’: New book confirms how senior women are unfairly treated The authors of a new book: ‘It’s not you, it’s the workplace: Women’s conflict at work and the bias that built it’ confirms women aren’t broken.
Employers 72% of Australians say dads deserve more parental leave A recent report commissioned by HR services and recruitment company, Randstad, reveals that Australians want better parental leave policies for fathers.
Business That pay gap? Gender discrimination is increasingly to blame Gender discrimination is up 10% as a contributing pay gap factor since 2014, while the input of “occupational segregation” has dropped from 20 to 8 per cent
News & Views ‘Not doing it would be silly’: ING to offer paid parental leave equality removing ‘primary’/’secondary’ labels ING Bank Australia will give both parents equal access to 14 weeks paid leave, removing ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ labels in the process.