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Public sector employment rises 1% to 1,521,500: ABS

The number of total public sector employees increased by one per cent to 1,521,500 for the year to May 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said. Of this figure, state government staff (the highest public sector category) increase by 0.8% ...

Public sector employment rises 1% to 1,521,500: ABS

The number of total public sector employees increased by one per cent to 1,521,500 for the year to May 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said. Of this figure, state government staff (the highest public sector category) increase by 0.8% ...

Advisors in Australia must hold license: ASIC

... had breached the Corporations Act by providing financial services for the company, through their management of, and employment with Morgan Price. 'This result sends a clear message to anyone operating a financial services business from Australia that ...

OECD urges governments to improve job opportunities to the marginalised

... improve the job opportunities for women, older workers, people with disabilities and the low-skilled. In the latest OECD Employment Outlook report, the organization argued that without more and better jobs for such groups who are underrepresented in ...

Morning market wrap: US stocks jump after Fed leaves rates unchanged

... remain accommodative for the foreseeable future. In announcing the decision, the Fed noted the persistent weakness in employment growth, but otherwise re-iterated its view economic growth was poised to strengthen. The Dow Jones industrial average surged ...

FOMC to meet next week, unlikely to change interest rates: ICAP

... labour force is where the current episode does stand out. They said that the Federal Reserve had always waited for employment to return to pre-recession levels before starting to remove the monetary policy stimulus. On this basis, the current gap is ...

Australia's current unemployment rate compares favourably with OECD average

... worse, at a standardised 8.9%, which is 0.5 percentage points higher than a year earlier. For the US, the standardised employment rate was 6.2% in July 2003, 0.2 percentage points lower than the previous month but 0.4 percentage points higher than a ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries dip lower

... that the Australian economy is going through a phase which he calls "the golden age". He cited low inflation, high employment, low interest rates and high sustained economic growth as reasons for his ebullient comments. All Ordinaries 3195.2 -1.9 NASDAQ ...

Unemployment rate dips 0.4% to 5.8%: ABS

... number of employed persons has risen by about 80,600 according to the bureau from 9,452,300 to 9,532,900. Full-time employment increased by 63,500 to 6,821,400 and part-time employment increased by 17,100 to 2,711,500. Unemployment decreased by 40,100 ...

Domestic job figures to give new clues to economy

WITH AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2003
... a share market recovery and signs of an economic recovery overseas. But economists will be looking for a rebound in employment figures to ease worries that the labour market remains soft. The concerns were underlined by the government's official employment ...