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Where in the cycle is Australia?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... for a pay rise at your own risk! But sluggish growth in wages also has an upside - Australian businesses are hiring more workers. The latest labour market shows that another 3700 Aussies got jobs in October. Sure, this was significantly less than market ...

'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... enough sour-graping. ABS stats show that public sector employment accounts for just around 15% of the total number of workers employed in Australia, implying that their healthier wage increases wouldn't be sufficient to lift spending and inflation overall. ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... the past three quarters. Hey, perhaps that's why business conditions are at records... they're getting away with paying workers peanuts!

NAB hastily recruits after announcing job cuts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... labelled NAB's transition initiative, The Bridge, as 'too little too late' and saying it doesn't provide the level of support workers need. "The FSU has negotiated industry leading job security provisions including training and development and NAB must ...

More clarity needed on NAB redundancies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... information to be provided urgently on the 2000 new jobs they are planning," Angrisano said. The FSU wants to know how workers can be retrained for the 2000 new roles NAB announced it would be creating, rather than have them made redundant, she added. ...

Fed does the expected, will do as expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... since pre-GFC (8.3% in February 2007). This is now putting upward pressure on wages. Total compensation of all civilian workers as measured by the Employment Cost Index (ECI) rose by 2.5% in the year to the third quarter. This is the fastest rate of ...

Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... Increasing demand for labour should soon bring the unemployment rate down below NAIRU that should send wages rising and workers spending. But apart from NAIRU, the RBA deputy governor also stated that, "Measures of underemployment are also helpful" and ...

Mental health an underlying business problem: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... their business. SuperFriend released its annual Indicators of a Thriving Workplace report which said 46% of Australian workers view workplace mental health and wellbeing as a problem in their business. Only 20% per cent believe this issue is being addressed ...

StatePlus partners for holistic retirement transition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
StatePlus has partnered with a specialist organisation to help mature age workers transition seamlessly and holistically to retirement. The collaboration with Perth-based Life Time Wise, a practice that coaches baby boomers on financial, workforce and ...

Jobs galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
It's a wonderful set of numbers that came just in the nick of time for the estimated 900 workers who'll be finishing at Holden's car manufacturing plant in Adelaide today. For as that door closes, another opens. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...