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Greg Combat has `no idea' on dodgy installers (12/3/2010)
Kevin Rudd's hand-picked fix-it man for the botched $2.45 billion home insulation scheme, Greg Combet, has admitted it was so poorly administered he has no idea how many of the 10,000 companies that delivered the insulation were dodgy.
Source: the Australian
Jobs growth slows, unemployment ticks up (12/3/2010)
The unemployment rate crept higher to 5.3 per cent in February, after January's figure was revised down to 5.2 per cent.
Source: ABC
Metro trains offers staff bonuses if it can meet its targets (12/3/2010)
In a desperate bid to lift its performance, Metro has offered staff bonuses if it can meet its targets.
Source: Herald Sun
NSW bucks the trend with falling unemployment (12/3/2010)
New South Wales is the only state to have recorded a fall in its unemployment rate last month.
Source: ABC
Poor safety to blame for staff turnover (11/3/2010)
Companies lose about 10 per cent of their turnover as a result of poor safety, costing billions in lost production and flow-on effects, a leading academic says.
Source the Daily Telegraph
Julia Gillard supports union pay equity bid (11/3/2010)
About 200,000 community sector workers who care for the elderly, disabled, domestic violence victims and children at risk could get a pay rise of up to $20,000 a year under a landmark equal pay case.
Source: Courier Mail
Sixty health staff lose jobs in salary rort probe (11/3/2010)
The salary packaging scandal that has engulfed the health system has cost 60 people their jobs.
Source: Perth Now
Giant worker camp for Karratha (11/3/2010)
An 1180-worker accommodation camp is set to be built to in the booming Pilbara town of Karratha.
Source: WA Today
Rudd faces Senate strife on maternity leave (11/3/2010)
Kevin Rudd will face a Senate ambush aimed at sweetening his 18-week paid maternity leave scheme as Tony Abbott's $2.7 billion six-month-leave policy wins support from the Greens, and a sympathetic hearing from the two independents.
Source: the Australian
Abbott's family pay day (10/3/2010)
The future of Australia's first paid parental scheme is in doubt because the Greens believe an alternative put forward by the Opposition is far better.
Source: Adelaide Now
Sigma-Herron punished union workers for strike - NUW (10/3/2010)
Australian pharmaceutical giant Sigma-Herron could be taken to the industrial umpire for allegedly punishing workers who went on strike, a union says.
Source: the Daily Telegraph
Economy buoyed by surge in job ads (10/3/2010)
WA recorded the biggest growth in job advertisements last month as confidence surged among the State's businesses.
Source: the West Australian
Rudd may change Labor parental plan (10/3/2010)
Kevin Rudd is likely to improve his parental leave plan after Tony Abbott's pledge to give primary carers six months' leave at full pay provoked questions about the adequacy of the Government's scheme
Source: the West Australian
Union pair on assault charges (10/3/2010)
Two senior building union officials are to face court next month after being charged with assault and other offences following an alleged incident at a Carlton building site last March.
Source: the Age
Job ads surge in February (10/3/2010)
There was a significant rebound in the number of jobs advertised on the internet and in major metropolitan newspapers last month.
Source: ABC
Parental plan a 'cheap ploy' to win votes (10/3/2010)
Reaction from ABC readers suggests many Australians are sceptical about the Federal Opposition Leader's ambitious parental leave plan.
Source: ABC
Jobs promise in Greens' forestry pledge (10/3/2010)
The Greens are promising to stop logging in large sections of Tasmanian forest, saying the policy will create jobs not cut them.
Source: ABC
Tony Abbott eyes working families with paid parental leave (9/3/2010)
Tony Abbott has thrown his first major policy punch of the election year, proposing a $2.7 billion tax on big companies to fund a universal paid parental leave scheme.
Source: the Australian
Australia can't afford gender inequality at work - Swan (9/3/2010)
More women hold powerful political jobs than ever before, but gender inequality is still too common in the workforce, the federal government says.
Source: the Daily Telegraph
Health jobs in danger (9/3/2010)
Premier David Bartlett has said he will make no apologies if public servants lose their jobs through federal health reforms.
Source: the Mercury
Business savages maternity leave plan (9/3/2010)
Business groups have savaged Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme, arguing many companies already paid employees for time off work when they had a baby.
Source: the West Australian
Pharmaceutical giant lays off 30 Brisbane workers (9/3/2010)
Thirty employees of pharmaceutical giant Sigma-Herron have been made redundant in Brisbane, with workers given no warning they'd lost their jobs, a union says.
Source: Brisbane Times
Uncertainty for staff as new department is born (8/3/2010)
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's decision to create a new government department to solve the home insulation crisis has caused alarm among public servants unsure about their futures and the task ahead.
Source: Canberra Times
16,000 less jobs this year as Queensland vacancies drop (8/3/2010)
Queensland has recorded the biggest fall in job vacancies of any state in the past 12 months, with warnings that businesses are months away from being confident enough to ramp up employment.
Source: Courier Mail
ACTU launches anti-Tony Abbott TV campaign (8/3/2010)
The union movement is accusing Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of wanting to bring back Work Choices in a new television campaign.
Source: the Australian
Online job ads up again (8/3/2010)
The number of jobs advertised on the internet increased again last month.
Source: ABC