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Economic round-up: Manufacturing out run by fitness

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... year over the next four to five years and apparently our strong dollar is in no small part to blame. A study by the Australian Industry Group flagged the Aussie dollar as weighing down manufacturing exports, just a week before our dollar rose again to ...

Economic round-up: Wage wars

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
... Australia-wide skills shortage. While WA's minimum wage seems to be dictated solely by demand, the Federal Government and the Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) are busy debating what would be "an appropriate increase in minimum wages" in light of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... the retail sector was the surprise after an improvement that followed several months of weak results. The St George-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry index of business conditions reported that wages growth was the highest on record during the ...

Noonan replaces Wason on CBUS board

... Builders of Australia, the Master Plumbers' & Mechanical Contractors of Australia, the CFMEU, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (CEPU) and the Australian Workers Union (AWU). Michelle Balt ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
The Australian Fair Pay Commission yesterday increased the national minimum wage for low paid workers by $27.36 to $700 and by $22.04 for those above $700 in a decision that was supported by both major political parties and the union movement but opposed ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
The release of monthly Australian Bureau of Statistics employment data yesterday revealed that in September about 31,400 jobs were added to the economy, taking the total to 271,000 over the last year. However, the number of people unemployed has dropped ...

Pension funds killing GM

... Relations watchers in Australia, already concerned with a potential wind-back in employment condition due to the proposed Australian reforms, will be watching these US developments closely.

Industrial disputes cost 244,600 working days for the year: ABS

... the year ended to June 2003 was 702 and has involved 133,700 workers and cost the nation 244,600 working days, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. This data also reveals that the number of working days lost per thousand employees was ...

Australian unemployment rate fourth lowest in OECD: ABS

... fourth among the leading OECD countries in terms of its unemployment rate, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). With an unemployment rate of 6.7 per cent (629,1000 unemployed persons), Australia trails behind ...
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