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A new industry-specific code of conduct will be created to help address power imbalance between independent car dealers and large manufacturers.

Labor's industrial relations spokesperson Brendan O'Connor says Labor will consider sweeping changes to Australia's employment landscape.

A crackdown on superannuation and changes to the Fair Work Act have been passed in the final sitting week for the year in Canberra.

Businesses are being warned about the dangers of adverse action after a director was fined for sacking a worker that approached fair work with a complaint.

Only one in six major buy-now-pay-later providers are examining the income and existing debts of their customers, ASIC says.

The government is forcing the country’s top 3,000 big businesses to reveal data on payment times, in an effort to improve small business cashflow.

The government will introduce reforms to improve flexibility in paid parental leave entitlements for workers and small business owners.

A business owner convicted of illegal phoenix activity will spend five years in prison, amid a broader crackdown on the black economy.

Directors engaging in illegal phoenixing will be named and shamed under a new Labor policy designed to crack down on black economy activity.

The Fair Work Ombudsman will receive new powers to pursue company directors under laws that passed the lower house this week

Afterpay has had a tumultuous week as some of its clients welcome an inquiry that will cover its business.

The TPP-11 is what's left of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership after President Donald Trump pulled the US out, after a decade of negotiation, in 2017.