Jobs
‘Poor swots who have to beg’: The great divide for casual university staff
Staff at Victorian universities are fighting to overhaul what they say is a two-tiered employment model in which some are stuck on insecure contracts for years.
- by Adam Carey
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Opinion
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Big change to our economy will come at a cost, but only if we care
The proportion of our workforce employed in the care economy has gone from 2 per cent in the 1960s to 10 per cent today. About 80 per cent of these workers are women.
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion
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Our big risk: Fix inflation, but kiss goodbye to full employment
If you think getting inflation down is our one big economic worry, you have a cockeyed view of economic success.
- by Ross Gittins
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Flexible working
Same workload, same pay, longer weekend. Is Australia ready for a four-day week?
Shorter weeks for the same pay have been popular and successful. But which workplaces does it suit? And how do flexible hours fit in?
- by Jackson Graham
Energy, defence, medicines: How Australia can prepare for jobs of the future
New data shows that over the past year, about 92 per cent of employment growth has been in occupations that usually require a tertiary or vocational qualification.
- by Anthony Galloway
Reaching your goals should bring lasting happiness, so why does it so often not?
“Mostly, how happy you are is a function of your general outlook in life … not a result of what is happening in your world,” explains psychologist Lana Hall.
- by Evelyn Lewin
Grim jobs figures build case for an interest rate pause
The unemployment figures are higher than the Reserve Bank’s forecasts, softening the case for another interest rate rise next month.
- by Rachel Clun and Clancy Yeates
Editorial
Opinion
Rise in unemployment should give RBA reason to pause
Surprise higher unemployment figures, announced on Thursday, suggest interest rates could be held in abeyance for a while.
- The Herald's View
Apprentices in NSW are quitting in record numbers, but one school is trying to change that
At CathWest Innovation College, students study the school curriculum three days a week to earn their HSC but also spend one day learning on the job as part of an apprenticeship, and another day at TAFE.
- by Christopher Harris
Work experience a thing of the past: students can’t find a place to take them
Having not been compulsory for decades, work experience for year 9 and 10 students is on the decline as schools struggle to find businesses willing to take in teens.
- by Amber Schultz
Opinion
The lowdown
Big employers dominate jobs market in post-COVID Australia
A data analysis of 2.2 million Australian job ads by Macquarie Business School scholars reveals a new employment landscape.
- by David Orsmond, Mauricio Marrone and Ali Amrollahi