Tag: Employment

The Melbourne Cup yesterday cost the Australian economy up to $1.239 billion in lost productivity, with over half of workers taking a half day off to watch the race.

Griffith University is launching a program to connect south-east Queensland small to medium businesses with skilled graduates and students called Griffith Talent.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is trusted by 92 percent of Australians, a report released during World Statistics Day has revealed.

Australia’s unemployment rate for September has remained at 5.1 percent, however almost 50,000 more people gained employment during the month according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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

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.

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.

Australia’s SMBs believe company tax cuts to be the most important issue in the upcoming federal election, a new Telstra survey has found.

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.

The three top issues for SMBs this Federal Election are tax, employment and red tap, new research has found.