Posts tagged "unemployment"

With a fast-recovering economy and a decreasing unemployment rate, employees are feeling confident. Here's how to prevent an employee exodus.

Human rights groups and researchers are warning that a combination of increased unemployment and new demand for labour means there is a real risk of increased worker exploitation and even slavery.

When JobKeeper ended at the end of March, it looked like a mere blip in employment. But that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been damage.

The RBA has hinted that July will see the start of a normalisation of monetary policy. But there'll still be no interest rate rises for years.

New data has provided the first glimpse of what is happening with employment following the end of the JobKeeper wage-subsidy scheme in March.

The RBA is not going to let up on pushing unemployment down and wage growth back up to where it believes it should be, not even for growing concern about climbing home prices.

The Reserve Bank of Australia, once famously inflation-focused, has been talking about full employment for a while — with a goal now set for unemployment levels that were last seen in the 1970s.

Josh Frydenberg has the opportunity to become a transformational Australian treasurer if he is willing to go for broke on unemployment.

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

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

Faced with an 8400% spike in hardship requests, SocietyOne reframed their triage and assessment process with a customer first mindset.

Advertised job vacancies are now exceeding pre-pandemic levels after businesses embarked on a major festive recruitment drive.