Posts Tagged ‘Australian Labour Market’
More teachers and more deaths: 2020 employment projections
Each year in Australia, the Department of Employment produces employment projections by industry, occupation and region for the upcoming five years, the latest being the five years to November 2020. These projections are produced using detailed data from the ABS Labour Force Survey. In the 2016 update released last Friday, total employment is predicted…
Read MoreStop your whinging hospitality employers: Improve pay and conditions
Last Friday industry news service, ShortList, ran a story (subscriber access only) on the struggles being faced by hospitality recruiters in finding sufficient staff to meet the demand from employers. The following from the ShortList article summarises the problem perfectly: (Frontline Hospitality Sydney agency manager Stephen) McGuire also noted salary packages for kitchen roles still aren’t as attractive as they…
Read MoreNZ employment update: First fall in three years
Yesterday the most recent quarterly update for employment in New Zealand was released (Statistics New Zealand publishes labour market data quarterly, whereas the Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes the equivalent data monthly). The result was the first backward step in the New Zealand labour market in three years. Category Sept 2015 (000s) …
Read MoreThe lucky country: Australia’s labour market progress since 1992
At this time in 1992 I had just turned 26 and was in my second year as a temp recruiter at Recruitment Solutions in the Sydney CBD with a remuneration structure of $35,000 base plus team commission. We had moved offices from 50 Margaret St to 275 George St and for the first time I…
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