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Australia’s unemployment rate decreased 0.2 percentage points to 5.1 percent (seasonally adjusted) in August, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced today.

Job ads in Australia are up 36.1 percent in the year to August, with the latest ANZ Job Advertisements Series data showing the total number of jobs advertised up to an average of 176,239 per week (seasonally adjusted).

Australia’s mining industry is driving an increase in job advertisements in the past six months, with job ads in the sector up almost 30 percent in the industry.

South Australian company Zarloc will showcase the ROSS system, its award-winning employee rostering solution, to an anticipated 7,500 visitors as part of the Future of Retail Technology showcase at Retail 2010.

According to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today about one in six workers started work with a new employer/business during the year to February 2010.

Job vacancies remained unchanged in August following a 13.9 percent spike in July, with concerns raised over a hung parliament influencing recruitment intentions amongst employers.

Gender equality in the workplace is even further off in 2010 than in 2009, with the wage gap widening over the last 12 months and a new study showing Australians are largely pessimistic about women ever receiving equal pay.

Australian Managers have low-self awareness, drastically hindering individual and organisational performance according to research from Human Synergistics

Firm Spy, the online industry gossip site, has seen a spike in traffic after two law firms Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Clayton Utz banned staff after reports on the firms were placed online, branding Firm Spy as “irresponsible and inaccurate”.

Regional employees enjoy their jobs more and are more engaged with their employers than those in metropolitan areas of Australia, according to new data.

Research from Monash University in Melbourne conducted for the Queensland Government has found that employers are again looking at older employees as they get desperate to fill empty roles.

Women are the losers in the 2010 Federal election, with a ‘sharp drop’ in the number of women elected to the House of Representatives according to Claire Braund, Executive Director Women on Boards.

The majority of Australian and New Zealand employers feel they were forced to make too many redundancies during the GFC which they now regret, according to research from Hudson.

1 in 20 people have been reprimanded, or worse, fired, for sending inappropriate email or sending it to the wrong person, according to a survey of 2,000 people in the UK.

Australia’s Superannuation industry has come out to slam Tony Abbott’s super policy on the eve of the election in a joint statement issued today.

Labor’s fiscal stimulus policy at the height of the global financial crisis will net the Federal Government an additional $16 billion in tax receipts from those who would have otherwise been unemployed.

Wages only increased by 0.8 percent in the June quarter according to the latest data from the ABS, reducing pressure on the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase rates at its September board meeting.

Australia’s unemployment rate increased by 0.2 percentage points to 5.3 percent in July, seasonally adjusted, with a fall in the number of full time employed.

Many employees are not prepared to negotiate their salary and instead believe it is necessary to switch jobs for a pay increase, according to new research released today from Robert Half.

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