Employment
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7th September, 2013 Thousands of jobs lost in Australia has made us increasingly uncompetitive. Under Labor one job was lost in manufacturing every 19 minutes. |
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23rd May, 2013 One job has been lost in manufacturing every 20 minutes since Labor came to office in 2007 |
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13th February, 2013 Just 15026 of 77610 long term unemployed are undertaking work for the dole activities |
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12th February, 2013 Government suspends its Wage Connect subsidy scheme for the long term unemployed until July 1 because the $86 million scheme (over 4 years) has run out of money (The Australian) |
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1st June, 2012 Only 559 people have taken up incentives to move around the country to obtain jobs even though 4,000 places were on offer. Only 42 have gone to Western Australia, 263 went to Queensland and 166 to NSW/ACT (The Australian) |
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22nd March, 2012 Auditor-General reports the Gillard Government gave $185,000 towards the $375,000 cost of a 750 metre bikeway to Byron Shire Council on the promise it would create two short term jobs and two work experience positions. Later the Council claimed that the project created 56 short term jobs but the Auditor found that 30 were existing full time Council employees (The Australian) |
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22nd September, 2011 The Auditor General reports that none of the $138.6 million spent on Labor's Jobs Plan was allocated to a project in a Priority Employment Area, There was no application process and the 12 projects were hand picked by Minister Albanese. The Government said in April 2009 the projects would create 1000 'immediate jobs' but it was not until August 2010 that any proponent reported that their project had created or retained any job |
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24th June, 2010 Kevin Rudd deposed as Prime Minister and replaced by Ms Julia Gillard |
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5th April, 2010 The Rudd Government's commitment that 10% of workers on its stimulus projects would be apprentices has not been honoured |
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10th December, 2009 71% of the Rudd Government's Jobs Fund projects has been spent in Labor electorates even though Labor holds only 53% of electorates |
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20th October, 2009 2,339 unfair-dismissal applications have been recorded, nearly double the figure of 1,268 recorded over the same period last year |
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22nd September, 2009 It is estimated that every job created by the Rudd Government's debt funded stimulus package has cost taxpayers $1.5 million |
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4th September, 2009 The number of days lost to strikes in 2007-08 increased to 174 days per 1000 employees |
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11th June, 2009 The unemployment rate in May has risen to 5.7% with 1700 jobs being lost taking the number of unemployed Australians to 651,200 |
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12th May, 2009 BUDGET Unemployment is forecast to reach 8.5% with 1,000,000 people out of work by 2010 |
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14th April, 2009 Qantas sacks a further 1700 staff and grounds another 10 aircraft |
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9th April, 2009 The unemployment rate has risen to 5.7 per cent, the highest level in more than five years |
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7th April, 2009 1100 mining jobs lost in one day including 705 in Queensland |
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6th April, 2009 The ANZ's job advertisement figures for March show that the number of advertisements in newspapers fell again in March to 53 per cent lower than a year before, and advertisements on the internet were down 44 per cent over the same period. |
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6th April, 2009 The Master Builders Survey predicts 'significant job losses' in the building industry in 2009 and 2010 in spite of Government stimulus packages |
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5th April, 2009 The number of jobs advertised on line fell 12.51 per cent in March according to the Olivier Job Index. This follows a 9.08 per cent fall in February. Job advertisements have dropped by 30.51 per cent since the beginning of 2009. There are now 92,708 fewer job advertisements online than at the start of the year. |
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1st April, 2009 The Skilled Vacancies Index records a 10.8 per cent drop in job advertisements in March, down 57.9 per cent from March |
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12th March, 2009 The Unemployment Rate increases to 5.2% |
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12th February, 2009 The Labour Force figures for January released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that unemployment in Australia has risen from 4.5% to 4.8% |
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12th February, 2009 A Westpac survey says that Australians are more worried about their job security than at any time since the 1982 recession |
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12th February, 2009 Australia's jobless rate rises to the highest level for three years and is expected to reach 6.3% by Christmas |
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9th February, 2009 The ANZ employment series, measuring internet and newspaper job ads showed employment advertising had fallen by 33.7 per cent from January last year. Ads fell 6.3 per cent (seasonally adjusted) in January, after a 10 per cent drop in December. ANZ predicts unemployment could rise from 4.5 per cent now to 7 per cent by 2010 |
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15th January, 2009 More than half a million Australians are looking for work following the loss of 44,000 full time jobs in December 2008 |
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12th January, 2009 The number of newspaper and internet job advertisements fell by 9.7 per cent in December according to ANZ's monthly survey and job advertisements are now at recession levels, having fallen 29.9 per cent over the last 12 months |
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9th December, 2008 The ANZ job advertisements measure experiences its biggest monthly fall on record, dropping by 8.6% |
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26th November, 2008 OECD predicts Australian unemployment will increase to 674,000 in 2010 |
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29th October, 2008 University of Sydney study - Australia at Work - finds that 85% of workers are in debt and 56% were struggling to make ends meet |
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14th October, 2008 Labor announces changes to mutual obligation arrangements whihch will dramatically reduce penalties for those who do not turn up for job interviews or training |
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30th September, 2008 The Labor Government cuts the Welfare to Work program designed to find jobs for people with disabilities |
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9th September, 2008 The number of jobs advertised fell in August by 4.9%, the biggest monthly fall in seven and a half years according to the ANZ job ads survey |
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4th September, 2008 ABS data released today shows there has been an 800% increase in strike action during Labor's first six months in office, compared to the same period last year |
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12th August, 2008 The Reserve Bank predicts 100,000 people will lose their jobs over the next 12 months, pushing the unemployment rate to 5% or possibly higher |
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7th July, 2008 The ANZ Job Advertisement Series, the Olivier Job Index and the SEEK Employment Index released today all provide further evidence that business confidence is in freefall |
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13th March, 2008 A Government commissioned report shows that Labor's industrial relations reforms will increase unemployment by up to 2.4%, with job losses of up to 268,000 and drain $50 million from the economy |
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11th March, 2008 The ANZ Job Advertisement Series index shows newspaper and internet advertised jobs falling by 2 percent in February |
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10th March, 2008 The latest Olivier Job Index records a fall in internet job advertisements for the first time in three years, down 5.9 percent |
