Posts tagged "employment"

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to pivot, fire employees, cut hours and even close their doors completely. Now, employers are faced with a war on talent.

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.

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 Fair Work Commission considered the gravity of financial misconduct in its recent decision, despite the financial cost being trivial in nature.

The economy seems on track for a rapid recovery. But with the pandemic continuing and the outlook uncertain, it’d be wise to take out insurance in the form of an updated JobMaker offering.

"Talk about returning the economy to normal after the crisis is misguided. Before the crisis, normal was nowhere near good enough," says Ross Garnaut.

Should wage subsidies and small business loans remain Australia's economic response measures of choice into the future?

Hiring in Australian businesses is roaring, raising hopes that 2021 will see the cohort left jobless by the pandemic move back into work.

The potential for social procurement to create inclusive employment “represents a truly unmissable opportunity”.

The RBA has slashed the official interest rate to a record low of 0.1% and eased other monetary policy to boost the national economy.

The government is poised to finalise its much-anticipated package of workplace reforms within weeks, Christian Porter says.

This week, the JobSeeker 'Coronavirus Supplement' will drop from $550 to $250 a fortnight, before it is dropped entirely at the end of 2020.