“Many small retailers are not opening every day”: Business groups urge government to rethink axed COVID-19 isolation payment amid staff shortage
The Morrison government's Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment scheme, which provided $750-a-week lump sum payments to workers required to self-isolate after testing positive for COVID-19, expired on June 30.
The unemployment rate is now just 3.5%, the lowest reading since 1974
The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the economy added some 88,400 jobs over June, while the number of unemployed people fell by 54,300.
While not the ‘Great Resignation’, there’s been an uptick in Australians switching jobs
The annual February mobility survey published by the ABS in May shows an uptick in the proportion of workers switching jobs, from a record low of 7.5% to 9.5%.
Australia’s unemployment rate officially begins with a ‘3’. What now?’
Thursday’s figure for the month of April has broken the 4% barrier, with unemployment in Australia officially sitting at 3.9%.
How the right budget could send Australia’s unemployment below 3% for the first time in 50 years
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 unemployment rate could fall below 4%. What happens then?
Australia’s unemployment rate is now 4.2% and, even with the effects of Omicron, there are good reasons to think it will fall further in 2022.
Open for business: Unpacking the Jobs Victoria wage subsidy
In this SmartCompany webinar, editor Eloise Keating gathers with Jobs Victoria CEO Lisa Buckingham and business owner Chris Choong to discuss how employers can hire in today’s job market, and how they can access the Jobs Victoria fund.
Just Gold strikes gold by recruiting through the Jobs Victoria online hub
Just Gold was among the first group of employers to recruit through the Jobs Victoria online hub, where co-founders Sophia Fatouros and Kyriakos Gold say they struck it lucky with three awesome new hires.
Labour force statistics show the unemployment rate has become meaningless
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.
Employment service providers are profiting more than job seekers. Here’s what needs to change
The problem with the employment services system is that it is premised on competition, not collaboration. And this model, delivered by outsourced providers, seems to have mostly benefited the providers.
As lockdowns continue, Australia’s unemployment rate hits decade low of 4.9%
The latest jobs figures show Australia’s unemployment rate in June fell below 5% for the first time in a decade. So what does that tell us about the state of the economy?
Top economists explain how the pandemic will affect the Australian economy for decades to come
The consensus of 23 leading Australian economists is that the economy will be reliant on government support for some time to come.
