On The Job with Francis Leach Podcast
1) Pain, periods, perimenopause: why workplaces need reproductive leave (part one)
On The Job is back and with new hosts: Kleo Cruse and Emma Hartley. This episode is for all workers with a reproductive system – yes, that’s you! The social stigma attached to menstruation and menopa...Show More
Pain, periods, perimenopause: why workplaces need reproductive leave (part one)
17:37 | May 15th, 2023
2) Summer Series - The Uber Files
The last pod in our summer series takes a look at one of 2022's best pieces of investigative journalism. Since it arrived on our streets over a decade ago, Uber has prided itself on being a "disrupte...Show More
3) Summer Series - Foodbank and the working poor
This week in our summer series, we head back to August 2022 to examine the growing demands for food assistance from workers and their families. The promise of the Australian Dream is that you should ...Show More
4) Summer Series - Elon Musk, Twitter, and why billionaires are a really bad idea
In the latest episode of our summer series, we head back to June 2022. At the time, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk was launching a hostile takeover bid for one of the world's biggest and most influentia...Show More
Summer Series - Elon Musk, Twitter, and why billionaires are a really bad idea
23:59 | Jan 8th, 2023
5) Summer Series - Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz
Welcome to the first episode in our summer series, where we take a look back at some of the great conversations we had in 2022. Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz is one of the world's great thinkers. Prof...Show More
6) Stone Cold Killer
Australian workers know all too well the dangers posed by working in an unsafe environment where being on the job means exposure to dangerous, toxic airborne substances. Zac Smith is the Acting Nati...Show More
7) Woke-Washing
Big business and corporations are always thinking about new and more subtle ways to change the perceptions and narrative about how they operate. On this week's edition of "On the Job", Emma Hartley a...Show More
8) Sally McManus on Secure Jobs Better Pay and the Union Way
The Secretary of the ACTU, Sally McManus is my guest this week discussing the implications of these new laws.
9) Richard Denniss and The Profit Crisis.
Australian workers are finding that what money they do earn is no longer anywhere near enough to pay the bills. Yet, employer and business groups are sharpening their attacks on Labor’s plan to get w...Show More
10) Workers and The World Cup
Have reforms made it ok to play the world's greatest sporting event in that country?