Unemployment rate remains at 3.5%

Unemployment rate remains at 3.5%

However, there were more women looking for work in September with the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for women rising to 3.6 per cent while for men it remained steady at 3.5 per cent. The participation rate remained steady at 66.6 per cent, in seasonally...
Australian record for worker back payments

Australian record for worker back payments

And the majority of wages recovered came from large corporate employers, who back-paid nearly $279 million to more than 267,000 employees — six times the amount returned from large corporates in the previous financial year. In total, there were 137 new litigations in...
Consumer spending strong in the lead-up to Christmas

Consumer spending strong in the lead-up to Christmas

The latest Mastercard SpendingPulse™, which measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, found that sales were also up 32.7 per cent on pre-pandemic levels with all retail categories continuing to record significant year-on-year sales growth....