In the balance.
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Employers increasingly expect employees to take responsibility for ensuring a healthy work-life balance.
Humanitarian migrants entering Australia encounter particular challenges in finding employment, but their prospects improve over time.
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The longer humanitarian migrants stay in Australia, the more likely it is that they will get a job.
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The rise of robots and new technology threatens to take over many jobs, but just how many is still up for debate.
Census figures show remote Indigenous communities are falling behind.
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Looking past the headline Census figures, we see divergences between rural and urban Indigenous populations, and the young and old.
Healthcare is becoming increasingly important in a services-led economy.
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Australia is increasingly a services-led economy. The health sector is not only a big employer, but health care is an important factor in worker productivity.
BMW recently opened a factory for aging workers in southern Germany.
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Employers who cater for their ageing workforce will get better staff productivity and engagement levels
Harvey Weinstein (third from left) faces allegations, but it’s not just a problem in showbiz.
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The nature of the entertainment industry has always made some more vulnerable.
Getting organised.
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It’s the first nationwide strike ballot since tough new legal requirements for industrial action were introduced.
Pilots are in high demand.
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There is a global pilot shortage which could soon affect all airlines.
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A survey of young voters reveals a lack of engagement in politics.
Approximately 15% of employed people whose main job is in arts or recreation services industries have more than one job.
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We can expect to see a rise in part-time employed people using second jobs as a solution to insufficient hours in their main job.
Ford and Dominos have teamed up to deliver pizza by driverless cars in a public test in Michigan.
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Domino’s Pizza and Ford have teamed up to offer pizza delivery via driverless cars in Michigan. Is it the way of the future?
Is the jobs glass half full or half empty?
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Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable claims there is no evidence that immigration impacts wages. Is he right?
President Macron meets the CFTC union president Philippe Louis during talks at the Élysée Palace.
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Amid wider reforms to labour law, proposals to reduce subsidised jobs for the unemployed raise concerns.
Between them, Go-jek and Uber have at least 300,000 accounts registered as freelance drivers in Indonesia.
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Indonesia revised a regulation on ride-hailing services to ensure fair competition. But the government has yet to address the job insecurity issues that drivers face.
The option of “holding out” for a permanent job looks increasingly risky as these opportunities dwindle.
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The costs of casual work are now outweighing the slim benefits in wages (and even those are not as much as they used to be).
Business leaders in ASX categories relying on household spending, have stronger than average positive outlook on the future.
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The sentiment of business leaders has remained positive and improved over the past 12 months according to our analysis.
New research identifies sexism as the main driver of the gender wage gap.
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New research shows that women are paid 16% less than their male colleagues for making a contribution of the same value to their employer.
It’s a man’s world.
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An expert who has spent 15 years researching the gender pay gap among actors explains.
The rise of the ChiefBot.
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Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel says while it’s possible to build robots to take over jobs – including his own – humanity still has the edge over machines.