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Real unemployment far higher than ABS claims: Roy Morgan

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... since the pandemic began, there are still millions who remain unemployed or under-employed. Unemployment and under-employment are rife, with the latest Roy Morgan findings showing that 2.3 million Australians (16.2% of the workforce) fall into these ...

Salaries soar but uncertainty remains: Recruiter

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
... is future uncertainty and employers hate uncertainty." "Overall, the E.L Index's result is not in keeping with the employment hype seen a few months ago and a 7% rise is quite modest in this regard." Montgomery added that a surge in resignation is occurring. ...

Spirit Super investment bought out

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... with the collaboration of ANU, ANUConnect Ventures and the ACT government has extensive multiplier effects on local employment," Barry said. "Spirit Super congratulates the founders and management of Intsaclustr, the chief executive and team at ANUConnect ...

Aussie instos commit $50bn to UK projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2022
... Lendlease has committed $9.65 billion to regeneration projects in London and Birmingham which is expected to created employment opportunities and deliver new low carbon homes, while both Fortescue and Worley will create 1000 new jobs each through the ...

Big spend on cost of living, defence

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... and the business that employ them are winners out of the government's jobs package, which is aiming to keep the employment rate at a record low. More Australians are in apprenticeships now than since records began in 1968, with 220,000 currently ...

HESTA pushes forward with internalisation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
... and what attracted them to our business, it was really our purpose. These are great investors that have spent their employment working hard in these markets, they are senior people usually coming to a period in their lives where they actually want to ...

UK takes steps to remove gender pay gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
... female counterparts. The UK's minister for women Deborah Stedman-Scott launched initiatives this week "to level up employment opportunities for women". One of the initiatives aims to close salary gaps by publishing a salary range in a job advert and ...

ASIC to strengthen market integrity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
... character" test for market operators was also introduced. Within its Futures Markets Rules, ASIC has replaced the prohibited employment rule with the good fame and character test, extending this test for market operators. A suspicious activity reporting ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... International Labour Organisation backed these findings again. It concluded that at a national level, better female employment increases gross domestic product and at a company level, more women in leadership generates more profits. On the back of similar ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... retire with less than men, including the gender pay gap and the fact women generally take far more time out of paid employment to do unpaid work, such as caring for children and elderly family members. As a society, we need to keep making a concerted ...