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Employment and hours worked have held steady despite the removal of key support measures that were in place during the heat of the pandemic, a new study has found.
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Australia’s jobless rate is tipped to head north next month, amid forecasts that up to 150,000 people could have lost their job after a wage subsidy ended on March 31, says Roger Wilkins.
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Putting extra demands on already stressed unemployed could affect their mental health – and the government knows it. New, tighter rules show it has learned nothing from the robo-debt debacle, argues Peter Martin.
Australians were told at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago that we were ‘all in this together’. But a deep dive into Adelaide’s labour force statistics reveals a tale of two cities, where those living in leafy council areas fared much better on the job front than counterparts in more disadvantaged regions.
The axing of the JobKeeper subsidy today heralds a nervous wait for hundreds of thousands of workers, as pandemic-hit employers try to survive without government payments and Treasury estimates that up to 150,000 people may lose their jobs.
A national drop in the number of people claiming unemployment payments in January and February is expected to be short-lived, with Treasury estimates of up to 150,000 jobs at risk when JobKeeper ends on Sunday prompting calls for more targeted support.
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