Posts tagged "unemployment rate"

Wages are up and profits are down as the unemployment rate hovers at record lows and businesses scour the country, desperate for available workers.

Australia's unemployment rate is heading lower. Yet while typically good news, it's a sign inflation is still struggling to be tamed.

Australia is facing a war for talent — and the nation's small businesses appear to be outgunned, with large companies growing their headcounts faster while also offering more significant wage increases.

By now it should be clear that Australia’s dismal rate of female workforce participation is something that needs to be drastically improved.

Dan Murphy's on Monday announced it will provide on-the-spot job interviews across its retail empire, offering curious patrons and genuine jobseekers alike the opportunity to hop behind the counter.

What’s driving this new ultra-low unemployment? It’s been harder for employers to get workers, because borders were closed, and because of unusually high rates of people off sick.

The recent disability Royal Commission exposed that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before people with disability have equal and fair access to employment opportunities. 

Australia has now managed to keep a rate of unemployment below 4% for three consecutive months. If things are so good, why is wage growth so low?

A budget that forecast a rate lower than 4%, but adopted as a target or stretch forecast an unemployment rate lower than 3%, would make history.

Australia’s labour force statistics for August again make the case for giving up on the rate of unemployment as an indicator of the state of the labour market.

The labour force figures for July, released today, show how the labour market is recovering from last year’s massive pandemic hit.

Nationally, women lost jobs at a faster rate than men, with payroll jobs held by women falling by 2.8%. Young people were the age demographic hit hardest during the period.