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With a recession seeming imminent, many Canadians are rightfully concerned about the state of their finances. Here are some ways you can be prepared for one.
While the official figures are lower than earlier estimates of job losses, they also show certain types of employees – casual, non-academic and younger staff – bore the brunt of the staff cuts.
Preliminary research suggests cultural and social services retain or attract employees hard hit by plant closures in other communities. Preserving them may help cities withstand future crises.
Changes to National Employment Standards have done little for casual staff hoping for conversion to ongoing positions. A comprehensive review of university work and employment is long overdue.
While 18 universities suffered medium to high financial impacts, the incomes of eight increased or were stable. Overall revenue fell 5% – less than feared – but 35,000 staff lost their jobs.
Many Balinese believe COVID-19 cannot be fought with health measures alone, and requires ritual offerings and prayer. But collective ritual places people at more risk.
The inner suburbs are home to large numbers of workers in jobs vulnerable to the pandemic. If they’re forced to seek cheaper housing in outer suburbs, the urban divide will widen.
We protect the savings of non-resident people in Australia but we leave them without any benefits if they lose their job here.
The budget is one of the key tools that government has to effect meaningful change.
The national broadcaster has announced more cuts to its services, including 250 job losses and the axing of the major 7:45am news bulletin. It is the latest in a long line of blows to the ABC.
The social impacts of the coronavirus will leave a legacy long after the virus itself.
The loss of livelihoods flowing from the efforts to combat the pandemic highlights the dearth of social protection measures on the continent.
Representatives of tenants and agents agree that leaving individuals to try to sort out rent reductions has created a mess. It calls for government to step in to look after both renters and landlords.
Some economists are predicting joblessness to surpass the record level experienced at the height of the Great Depression as 22 million people file for unemployment benefits.
As New Zealand enters a four-week lockdown, some business leaders will get their workers through better than others. Five key principles can make all the difference.
As machine automation and artificial intelligence surge, there’s paranoia our jobs will be overrun by robots. But even if this happens, work won’t disappear, because humans need it.
The governments needs to adjust its agenda to take on board concerns voiced by citizens about the impact of technological changes.
Regional authorities require real teeth to protect their towns from big shocks like factory closures.
South Africa’s finance minister delivered a budget that tried to balance serving the public interest, while maintaining the stability of public finances.
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University
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Professor Emeritus and Former Deputy Vice Chancellor, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Massey University
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Industrial Strategy, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath
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Clinical Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Adjunct Professor, QUT Business School, and Director of Corporate Transition, Queensland University of Technology
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Economics, University of Venda
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Principal Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Divisional Executive, Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
