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Exporters to be hard hit by RBA decision: Ai Group

WITH AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2003
... rates unchanged at 4.75 per cent, 3.75 percentage points higher than US rates. Ai Group chief executive Heather Ridout warned jobs could go if the Australian dollar continued to rise on the back of high domestic interest rates, and the decision would ...

ACCI rejects ACTU's redundancy pay plans

... that will cripple many small and medium businesses, weaken job security and reduce the capacity of employers to generate jobs, announced ACCI chief executive Peter Hendy today. "Employers and small businesses are entitled to a fair go from our industrial ...

Unemployment rate drops to 6% in May: ABS

... stood at 612,500 in May compared to the 622,700 in April. The number of employed in May was 9,535,400, an increase of 29,000 jobs as compared to April's figure of 9,506,400. The labour force participation rate was the same for both months at 64%.

Newspaper job ads rise by 8.1% in May, but disguise downturn: ANZ

The number of jobs advertised in the major metropolitan newspapers in Australia rose by 8.1 per cent in May to an average of 20,109 per week, according to the latest ANZ job advertisements data. This follows a 12.1% fall in advertisements in April ...

Lend Lease to exit troubled US REI business, cuts 600 jobs

... The developer also intends to undertake an on-market share buyback of up to 10 per cent of its shares and to cut about 600 jobs locally and overseas, excluding the REI business. "It is clear that what I would call the grand global strategy embarked upon ...

Telstra defends plans to cut 3,000 jobs

Telstra has announced to a Senate budget estimates committee that it plans to slash 3,000 jobs in the next financial year. Stephen Morrison, media relations manager at Telstra, told the Financial Standard that the job cuts will not come at the expense ...

Crean reaffirms opposition to Telstra sell-off

... there will be no further Telstra sell-off, following today's statement from the telco giant that it would not slash 4,000 jobs or cut capital spending by up to 20 per cent this financial year. "I am committed to ensuring that no more of Telstra is sold ...

Qantas downgrades profit forecast again

... subsidiaries, including Qantas flight catering, Qantas Holidays and Australian Airlines," he said. The airline has planned to cut jobs and put a freeze on capital expenditures to address the downturn. Investors took a stick to the airline in the wake ...

ACCC to block Qantas-Air New Zealand deal

... fresh blow to Qantas, already reeling from a downturn in bookings due to the war in Iraq and the SARS crisis. It announced jobs cuts of 1,000 yesterday.

Qantas to cut 1,000 jobs by June 30

... positions being converted from full-time to part-time. Dixon also said that the global aviation industry has shed over 400,000 jobs between September 2001 and the star of the war in Iraq. Qantas currently has about 35,000 staff.