The Reserve Bank’s focus would shift from fighting inflation to ensuring every person who wanted a job could have one under a proposal from the ACTU that has accused the institution of adding to Australia’s cost-of-living crisis.

Caring for children remains the largest barrier to female participation in the labour force, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Mount Gambier has held itsfirst jobs and skills showcase at City Hall, in an effort to help tackle skills shortages plaguing the region.

Backpackers on working holiday maker visas have beena crucial sourceof farm labour for decades, alongside smaller numbers of temporary migrants from the Pacific Islands, international students, and Australians.

Like many industries, the aquaculture sector is facing a workforce shortage in regional South Australia compounded by a lack of accommodation for staff.

People on the national disability insurance scheme who want to work will be connected with a disability employment services provider under a trial to be established by the Albanese government.

A recurring theme on these pages from myself and other transport industry groups in recent times has been the challenges of chronic labour shortages and their impact on already stressed supply chains, and the operators tasked with keeping them functioning

The Productivity Commission warns that a lack of skills and a reliance on legacy systems threatens Australia’s ability to keep pace with developments in technology - and that has far-reaching implications for productivity and economic growth.

Few people have a CV as impressive as Amin Niazai. The 35-year-oldAfghan-born Melburnian is a forest ecology and climate change scientistwith a master's degreeand aPhD from Kyoto University in Japan.

The federal government will be coming in hot with a fresh budget on Tuesday, which means there’s a lot of opinions floating around regarding what should be in there.

When Ritesh Mahato emigrated from India to Australia in 2017 to pursue an engineering career, he was prepared for competition.

Demand for workers remains strong, although the number of job ads is falling away from recent highs.(ABC News: John Gunn)

Most of Australia’s 2.3 million small and medium business owners are desperate for financial help, as costs soar and profits dive. Amid fears of a global recession, owner-operators appeal to the Albanese government for support in its first budget, to be h

According to new research from RMIT University, women’s participation in the Cyber security business is now expanding faster than men’s.

In NSW, which had been in lockdown for six weeks prior to census day, nearly a third of employed people worked from home.Photograph: Loren Elliott/Reuters

The nation's workforce is changing rapidly as Australians study more, some jobs become redundant and an ageing population demands greater care.

There are concerns that casual workers who are not entitled to sick pay will feel pressured to hide symptoms of COVID-19 and continue going to work, now that subsidies for most of them are ending.

The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is calling for greater investments in nurse leadership and professional development in response to new data outlining the extent of Australia’s workforce shortages.

The number of occupations suffering skills shortages has nearly doubled in the past year, with authorities now looking at the best ways to address the problem - although updates to visa opportunities won't be "automatic".

Foreign accents are again echoing through the dormitories of regional Queensland hostels, as tourism operators and the agriculture industry celebrate the return of international travellers.