Employment
Surprise 3.9 per cent unemployment rate erodes rate cut chance
Anthony Albanese is hoping for interest rate cuts before the 2025 election. But a strong jobs market makes a rate cut decision tougher for the RBA.
- by Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Latest
Opinions might offend, but this lawyer argues they shouldn’t cost someone their job
The social media pile-on is today’s baying mob, where algorithms reward “Colosseum-style” justice. Josh Bornstein says employers have become moral arbiters and control too much of our lives.
- by Kieran Rooney
Many Gen Zs are working multiple jobs. Are they missing out on their 20s?
New data shows more people under 25 are working multiple jobs. But at what cost?
- by Lauren Ironmonger and Alyssa Talakovski
Opinion
Workplace
Bosses want to kill off working from home. There’s just one problem with that
There’s nothing “nonsense” about the changing way we work – or the economic bonus it brings – even if some senior business figures don’t want to believe it.
- by Matt Wade
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Interest rates
Reserve Bank accused of getting it wrong on rates – again
Unemployment has been steady for months as inflation has fallen, but the Reserve believes the job market is still too strong. The bank may be wrong.
- by Shane Wright
‘Ignorance and inattention’: Bubble tea giant Chatime fined for wage scandal
The bubble tea chain and its managing director Chen “Charlley” Zhao have been penalised for ripping off 152 workers in 2016.
- by Jessica Yun
Opinion
Opinion
How can jobs and joblessness both be going up?
Unemployment in Australia has stayed unusually low, but what do the other signs of our jobs market tell us?
- by Millie Muroi
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Public service
‘Shortsighted’: NSW government blasted as hundreds of jobs cut
The agency set up by the former Coalition government in 2013 as a one-stop shop for government services has some 360 jobs earmarked for cuts.
- by Michael McGowan
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Jobs
Where Sydney’s million new jobs will come from
Five industries will drive Sydney’s economic growth – but there’s a catch.
- by Matt Wade
Yes, your boss is spying on you. Should there be a watchdog on that?
The ACTU is set on changing the regulation of worker surveillance, calling for a national AI authority that co-ordinates with government to protect workers.
- by Olivia Ireland
For the first time, more than 10 million Australians have full-time jobs
But the chances of a pre-Christmas interest rate cut have all but evaporated after ABS figures revealed the jobs market continuing to surge.
- by Shane Wright
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