This Month
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- Workplace culture
Just one gesture stopped Anthony worrying about his disability at work
Employers often assume that employing people with a disability is costly. New research suggests that’s not true.
- Euan Black
US job growth slows in April; unemployment rate rises to 3.9pc
The closely watched US non-farm payroll report showed employers scaled back hiring.
- Lucia Mutikani
It’s not what you do but who you are: gender pay gap myths busted
The gender pay gap is not explained by women’s career choices, or that they work part-time. They just get paid less than men, a new study has found.
- Julie Hare
The WFH January mandate: How bosses are retaining staff
Publisher Hachette offers a range of initiatives to help retain good staff, including a January work from home mandate.
- Sylvia Ramsey
This policy has retained every mum on staff
Three months’ paid leave, six coaching lessons and $1000 for a new wardrobe – that’s what Hatched’s parents said they wanted. They got it.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Solving the worker shortage with overseas recruits
NDIS provider Concept Care says a shortage of skilled disability care workers has driven the company to sponsor workers to come to Australia, helped with visas, loans and bank accounts.
- Sian Powell
April
Nickel miner axes 530 jobs as pressure builds for budget bailout
Resources Minister Madeleine King says government alone cannot solve nickel industry woes as job losses near 2000 since December.
- Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The funds management shakeout is on – is it about to get worse?
First Sentier’s David Allen gave up the game when announcing what was probably the biggest ever strategy closure in Australian funds management earlier this week.
- Anthony Macdonald
Job seekers refuse to meet employers in person
Virtual job interviews are making it harder to assess applicants and highlighting a decline in people skills since the rise of working from home.
- Euan Black
Millions wasted as NDIS scraps training program that produced nothing
Advocates have lashed the axing of the scheme that would have enabled people with disabilities to work in NDIS auditing teams.
- Gus McCubbing
Can you job-share a seat in parliament? These two women want to try
Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock want voters to elect them together to represent the inner-Melbourne electorate of Higgins.
- Tom McIlroy
US jobless figures hold steady as labour market stays strong
US jobs have remained plentiful and the economy has forged on thanks to strong consumer spending.
- Matt Ott
- Updated
- Employment
Business collapses hit record, jobs market stays strong
The slowing economy pushed a record number of businesses into insolvency last month, but just 6600 people lost their job, suggesting smaller firms were hit hardest.
- Ronald Mizen
‘My side hustle brings in $23k a year – without me even realising it’
Instead of trading your time for a wage, as with typical jobs, people who earn a so-called “passive income” do so with minimal input. But how easy is it really?
- Amelia Murray
Great work: Gen Z’s anti-hustle ethos may hurt their careers
A new survey shows the number of anti-hustle job ads has risen 30 per cent since the pandemic as employers emphasise work-life balance to entice young workers.
- Sophia Money-Coutts
US jobless figures fall but wholesale inflation eases
The US labour market continues to show resilience despite hot inflation data, while producer prices rose by less than economists expected.
- Matt Ott
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Private equity back to clean up its mess at troubled jobs agency
Jobs agency APM’s situation gets more bizarre as it goes looking for another frog to kiss.
- Anthony Macdonald
Investors sceptical RBA will cut rates at all in 2024
Equities have shrugged off dialled back rate cut expectations, with the US not expected to pull the trigger until September and the RBA priced for December if at all this year.
- Cecile Lefort
Trump’s Fed chairman option opposes rate cuts this year
Kevin Hassett is a frontrunner to become Federal Reserve chairman if Donald Trump is elected. He says inflation remains sticky and isn’t being measured properly.
- Matthew Cranston
US jobs roar again, probability of June rate cut falls
Non-farm payrolls advanced 303,000 in March, the most in nearly a year, led by faster hiring in health care, construction, as well as leisure and hospitality.
- Molly Smith