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Global city to introduce four-day work week for thousands of employees

The workers will have the option to take three days off each week from April.

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Thousands of government employees in Tokyo will have the option to work four days a week from April.

Thousands to share in $72m payout from one of Australia’s biggest universities

The university will repay staff for underpayments as high as $150,881.

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Thousands of people will share $72 million in payments from Melbourne University, which has entered into an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Fears for Christmas supply as Coca-Cola workers down tools

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Coca-Cola said the strike should not impact supply numbers during the Christmas period.

Woolies shelves stripped bare as union warns ‘things are going to get worse’

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Woolworths shoppers are being warned of a ‘temporary supply interruption’ as distribution centre workers strike for better pay and working conditions.

Electrician suffocates after being trapped in electrical pit

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JD Finlay Electrical was sentenced in court last week, charged with breaching the Work Health and Safety Act after one of its workers died of positional asphyxiation in 2022.

Some Aussie workers to get small pay rise in less than two months

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Home care workers in the aged care sector can expect a marginal wage boost in line with the rising award rate at the start of next year. File image.