Know your rights and artfully negotiate to get the working life you want

Published: June 21, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Which of the following is legal: Your boss can ask you to work more hours than usual to "earn" jobkeeper, your boss can force you to take annual leave, or your boss can make you take leave without pay? Jobkeeper legislation has temporarily rewritten the rules around employment here in Australia. So to clear things up we're diving into the murky waters of what your boss can and can’t ask you to do and what YOU can ask of THEM in return. Helping us is Zana Bytheway, executive director with the not-for-profit legal service Jobwatch. Then then we learn the art of negotiation so that you can get what you want, and deserve, at work. But if you are a woman beware, because according to research by Dr Ruchi Sinha from The University of South Australia, you have to choose a different approach to men or it could have a "social cost". I(f you are listening on Apple Podcasts and enjoy the show please take a moment to rate and review.) Producers: Maria Tickle and Zoe Ferguson