Time to focus on smart, nimble niches in bid to create jobs
TASMANIA’S small business sector has backed a call for some of the state’s best minds to work out a jobs plan.
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TASMANIA’S small business sector has backed a call for some of the state’s best minds to work out a jobs plan.
Tasmanian Treasurer Peter Gutwein has rejected calls from the Tasmanian Council of Social Service for a jobs taskforce to lead the state out of what it has described as a jobs “crisis”.
Mr Gutwein said another “talkfest” would not help.
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However, TasCOSS chief executive Kym Goodes said creative, compassionate and innovative Tasmanians were keen to take action on employment opportunities.
“All that’s missing is leadership,” she told the Mercury.
Robert Mallett, of the Tasmanian Small Business Council, believes it is time for cultural change.
Currently 60 per cent of the state’s 37,000 small enterprises have no employees.
He said a return to higher government incentive payments to take on apprentices and trainees was needed.
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Launceston business owner and alderman Darren Alexander said it was time to concentrate on small, nimble businesses that could replace the big industrials once they could no longer complete globally.
“We need to be smarter to create jobs of the future and use the digital highway while we promote all the best things about where we live,” Ald Alexander said. “We also need to free up capital to get these niche ventures going.
“Imagine the difference it would make if 100 new micro-businesses put on one or two people each.”
The Greens plan to call on the Hodgman Government in Parliament this week to create a ministerial portfolio for employment and initiate a comprehensive workforce participation plan that engages business and industry while the Labor Party said TasCOSS had put the Government on notice that the state was in the middle of a jobs crisis.
Originally published as Time to focus on smart, nimble niches in bid to create jobs
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