News
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will use a speech in Canberra today to outline the strategy for his May 11 budget and his plan to drive the national jobless rate below five per cent.
Opinion
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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South Australia’s unemployment rate has fallen but still remains the worst in the nation, according to Australia Bureau of Statistics data released today.
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 Morrison Government backbencher has branded tougher JobSeeker mutual obligation rules an “increasingly meaningless” burden on the unemployed and employers.
The Morrison Government’s stricter rules demanding five job searches a week not only affect the unemployed, but employers who will have to deal with millions more applications a month, argues Rachel Siewert.
