Seventeen apprentice, trainee, and graduate positions. MidCoast Council will offer 17 new apprenticeship, traineeship, and graduate opportunities at Taree, Forster, Tuncurry, Gloucester and Bootawa to start January 2021. Council is advertising the new positions on their website and other employment websites. On offer are traditional trade apprenticeships in electrical, automotive,
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PBO report signals older women at risk of long-term unemployment without Government action. A Parliamentary Budget Office report shows that before the COVID-19 crisis, older women were increasingly recipients of JobSeeker (then Newstart). The report found that in 2019 half of all people on JobSeeker (then Newstart) were aged 45
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How Australians can take action to stop cuts to JobSeeker (aka NewStart). With 15 days until the Federal Government is planning to slash the JobSeeker supplement by $300 a fortnight, social justice agency the Brotherhood of St. Laurence (BSL) is calling on the more than 1.4 million JobSeeker recipients to
Read more...Researchers map emerging disadvantage in Australia due to COVID-19 job loss. A new report reveals the areas that are most at risk of COVID-19 related job loss, with researchers pinpointing more than 100 locations of emerging disadvantage in Australia. The updated ‘Employment Vulnerability Index (EVI) 3.0’, created by researchers at
Read more...Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey. By James Lesh, University of Melbourne. Jack Mundey, who died aged 90 on Sunday (10th May 2020), was a pioneer of the Australian heritage movement. As well as contributing to labour and environmental politics, Mundey reconceived of the ways
Read more...Building the recovery workforce through short courses. The University of Newcastle offers short courses for displaced workers to upskill or reskill in the post COVID-19 recovery. A suite of graduate certificate courses will be available 11 May 2020, across growth disciplines, including environmental management and sustainability, project management for building,
Read more...Jobs and training partnership forged in the Cessnock region. Cessnock Jobs and Training Network team members meeting at Cessnock Council. Cessnock City Council’s Employment and Training Network aims at a sustainable workforce and local businesses to employ more staff. The collaborative working group consists of employment agencies and training bodies
Read more...Workers at RAAF Base Williamtown will service and prepare up to 46 retired F/A-18 Classic Hornet aircraft that will be sold to air combat training company Air USA. The Classic Hornet aircraft will be used to provide training services to the United States Air Force and will be prepared over
Read more...Worker sacked over Downfall joke reinstated by Full Bench of Fair Work. The Fair Work Commission has re-instated a Western Australian BP oil refinery technician sacked for sharing a popular parody video of the film Downfall. The full bench of the Fair Work Commission today ordered the reinstatement of Scott
Read more...NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos said the union would take the opportunity presented by the TAFE review to highlight the failed privatisation policies of successive state and federal governments. TAFE budgets have been slashed resulting in the loss of thousands of jobs and courses,” Mr. Gavrielatos said. The race
Read more...New Hunter Valley Jobs website launches. Acting Economic Development Manager Rhiannon Stevens and Economic Development Officer Brad Sangster demonstrate the new jobs portal to Paul Cousins CEO of Cessnock Leagues Club. Cessnock City Council is urging businesses to assist in the test phase of a new local jobs portal and
Read more...Stubborn rate of youth unemployment hits 265,000 young Australians. Nearly one in five unemployed young people have been out of work for a year or more, according to a disturbing new report. This equates to more than 46,000 Australian jobseekers aged 15 to 24 who meet the definition of being
Read more...Homegrown solutions to technology skills shortage. Compounding the current critical shortage of high-tech qualified workers, Australian-based businesses and workers educated and trained in high-tech skills are heading overseas where they are better supported, the survey finds. The majority of Australians believe the continued and increasing need for high-technology skills in
Read more...Map further below show Hunter region income mapped for year 2014-15. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) annual Taxation Statistics report for 2016–17 gives an overview of 13.9 million individuals and 970,000 companies. In New South Wales, the profession with the highest income was anaesthetists with an average taxable income of
Read more...Port Kembla: Crew, emergency workers, farewell the Iron Chieftain. The Iron Chieftain left Port Kembla on Wednesday, 27 March, under tow to its final resting place in Turkey. Pictured ~ Fire-damaged ore carrier Iron Chieftain leaves Port Kembla under tow to Turkey. Image credit: Michelle Meyers, MUA. The Chieftain suffered
Read more...People who go to bed late and then get up later have significantly lower functional connectivity in the brain, slower reaction times, and may struggle with a standard 9-5 work day compared to ‘early risers’, according to a new international study. Research shows that individuals whose internal body clock dictates
Read more...Anti-poverty group’s report smashes the ‘avocado’ generation myth . An estimated 75,300 young people aged 15 to 24 were unemployed in NSW in December 2018. Hunter region youth unemployment levels remain stubbornly high at over 13%. Across Australia the youth unemployment rate is stagnating at the levels seen in the
Read more...A Lake Macquarie City Council training program addressing Australia’s skills shortage crisis will be expanded, after four years of success. Pictured ~ Rachael Neale is a former Merewether High School student who successfully applied for a traineeship in fleet management More than 50 apprentices, trainees and cadets have completed the
Read more...BHP and Bluescope Steel will lay off 80 Australian seafarers and retire the remaining two Australian-manned bulk carriers from service, the Maritime Union of Australia said. MV Lowlands Brilliance (pictured) and Mariloula will cease Australian coastal iron ore trade and their China coal run, MUA National Secretary Paddy Cumlin explained.
Read more...A federal parliamentary committee has called for government action to stem rampant casualisation of full-time mining jobs in order to improve the industry’s social and economic return to the regional communities that support it. The ‘Keep it in the regions’ report released this week by the House of Representatives Standing
Read more...A bus-building facility offering a potential 250 jobs opened at Tomago today [15 March 2010]. [Pictured: Brisbane Transport bus on Volgren chassis] Volgren Australia unveiled its body-building factory at the Hunter Industrial Estate at Tomago one year after construction began. Despite tough economic times, we are a proud Australian company
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