With labour shortages across Australia,small businesses and family farms are relying on young teen workers to help keep companies afloat.
The federal government wants training for millions of Australians who lack the basic literacy and numeracy skills required to gain better jobs and increase their wages.
“Sparky” may soon feature on kindy kids’ career wish lists alongside princesses and astronauts if union plans to inspire a new generation of future tradies take off.
The housing affordability crisis is worsening staff shortages because it is becoming too expensive to live in many parts of Sydney.
A timely review will this week urge the Albanese government to consider a major shakeup of the nation’s migration system.
NSW Gaming and Racing Minister Kevin Anderson believes the pandemic made it harder to convince workers to go to a job each day.
Catholic Health Australia wants aged-care homes to be able to use industry-wide sponsorship to boost labour from Pacific countries to plug the nation’s workforce shortage.
Some of the state’s biggest medium security prisons are caught up in the staff squeeze which is leaving prisoners locked down for longer.
Employers have been playing tug of war with employees who are keen to retain their pandemic privileges. Will they be keeping them in 2023?
Submissions to the immigration review say the system needs to “evolve” and include better pathways to permanent residency for international students.
“The worst-case scenario,if we can’t get her in,is that one of us would have to stop working for a period of time,” said the toddler’s father Alex Mackay,after SDN Ultimo decided to shut before Christmas.