Tag: jobs
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Telstra to axe thousands of workers
The job cuts announced on Tuesday amount to about nine per cent of the company’s workforce, with most of the axed roles to go by the end of the year. Chief executive Vicki Brady said the changes were needed to ensure Telstra could continue to invest in supporting the ever-increasing growth in data volumes on…
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Look who’s hiring
Hospo venues are looking for front of house faces. There’s also a bit of creative variety sprinkled in, with fitspo fashion design, social media marketing, and women killing it in law a few of the openings we’ve come across. Read on and see if any of this month’s jobs are your cup of tea (or…
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Look who’s hiring
Our city has plenty of jobs up for grabs this month. If you know your way around a restaurant, some of our best are after enthusiastic front-of-house staff or chefs to leave their mark. A handful of film-forward and artistic roles have cropped up too. Adelaide Film Festival Cameras are rolling and Adelaide Film Festival…
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SA jobless rate lowest in the nation
Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data released this morning showed SA’s unemployment rate fell from January to February in seasonally adjusted terms from 4.0 per cent to 3.2 per cent. The national unemployment rate was 3.7 per cent. The state’s underemployment rate dipped slightly to 7.3 per cent which is the highest in Australia…
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Remote jobs campaign to help close the gap in employment
The Albanese government will release its blueprint to address Indigenous inequity on Tuesday, when it presents the Commonwealth’s Closing the Gap annual report 2023 and implementation plan 2024 to the Parliament. Last Wednesday the Productivity Commission published a damning review of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, calling for a radical shift by all…
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State and national jobless figures stay steady
The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics measured South Australia’s seasonally adjusted rate at 3.9 per cent, unchanged from November and the same rate as Western Australia. New South Wales’ jobless rate of 3.4 per cent was the nation’s lowest, followed by Tasmania with 3.6 per cent, while Victoria recorded 4 per cent…
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Queensland unemployment back to the worst in Australia, but there’s an upside
But that doesn’t tell the whole story. The Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed that the workforce in Queensland, which includes those looking for work, jumped by 23,000 in October to a record 2.99 million people. The number of people employed also increased by 10,000 and full time jobs were up by 4000 and part-time…
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What goes up: Employment ads hit two-year low, job cuts to rise next
The ANZ-Indeed job ads series has shown a decline of 3.5 per cent in the past two months but was still high in historical terms. The data comes ahead of the Reserve Bank board decision tomorrow on interest rates. The series showed that job ads had fallen 11.2 per cent since the peak in September…
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How low can things go at Qantas? Now the company’s Loyalty boss has jumped ship
Wirth has been a rising star in Qantas and she has taken the Loyalty business to record earnings and expanded its reach into hotels, holidays, insurance and financial services. She was among those in line for the chief executive role when Alan Joyce announced his retirement. It follows a clean out at the company following…
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Government opts for caution with new hydrogen transport laws
Legislation was passed by Parliament, the Gas Supply and Other Legislation (Hydrogen Industry Development) Amendment Bill which the Government said would unlock an estimated 10,000 jobs and $33 billion in economic activity by 2040. About 50 hydrogen projects are at various stages of development and the legislation would mean renewable hydrogen and gases could be…