28 November 2007
Australian airline Qantas has announced a union deal will see the company hire 2000 additional international flight attendants.The new staff will be phased in over a three-year period with the union agreement ensuring that these jobs will stay in Australi...read full story
27 November 2007
The sub-prime mortgage disaster continues to have an impact on overseas jobs with media reports in the US suggesting that Citigroup, which is America's second largest bank, are about to axe 17,000 workers and that figure could in fact be as high as 45,000...read full story
27 November 2007
Visa regulations that were introduced just two months before Saturday's federal election may be scrapped. changes made to 457 visa rules introduced on October 1 saw temporary IT work visa applications cease immediately. The changes had an immediate effect...read full story
26 November 2007
Australian workers, gave a loud and clear view on their thoughts about Work Choices by ousting the now former government in a landslide election victory on Saturday night.The anti-Work Choices backlash didn't come as a shock but the sheer magnitude of it ...read full story
20 November 2007
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the National Australia Bank is considering offloading Australian information technology jobs to India. The report says the NAB is considering proposals that wills see around 400 IT positions under threat as the bank...read full story
19 November 2007
Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott can't seem to keep himself out of the headlines with the Prime Minister John Howard again having to defend his minister over workchoice comments he made last week.Mr Howard said," What he simply said was that people no ...read full story
16 November 2007
The Australian bureau of Statistics yesterday released figures showing that the average yearly wage had broke through the $57,000 barrier.Seasonally adjusted estimates for full-time adult ordinary time earnings had risen to $1102.40 per week, which is a r...read full story
15 November 2007
The election campaign has started to hot up with the Prime Minister, John Howard giving as good as he got after Labor leader Kevin Rudd, had attacked his spending at the Liberal party campaign launch in Brisbane.Speaking at the official campaign launch of...read full story
14 November 2007
The Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) has released a report, which found that nearly two thirds of HR managers don't believe that their business understands what it is that they do. Surprisingly, almost half of the HR managers believe their effo...read full story
13 November 2007
The latest National Australia Bank monthly survey released on today, shows that wages growth in October remains very strong increasing to around 5.4% up from last months figure of 5.1%.NAB economists believe the signs are that wages are accelerating and t...read full story
09 November 2007
The Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to increase interest rates to 6.75% comes on the back of increasing job figures that show there were more than 70,000 new full time positions created last month.While full time positions increased by a record amoun...read full story
07 November 2007
Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the latest jobless rate has risen from a 33 year low of 4.2 percent in September to 4.3 percent in October.These relatively low jobless figures have made life difficult for both Job Network member...read full story
