A Perth mining company has been forced to look for workers from New Zealand after Aussies continually turned down a $300,000 job.

Thousands of Australians have been locked out of the job market and trapped in unemployment for years as entry-level jobs slowly disappear and no longer meet demand.

The NSW government will create more than 1,000 part-time positions annually for final-year trainees to work alongside doctors as paid "assistants in medicine" in city and regional hospitals.

MELBOURNE, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Mining is facing a major shortage of the digital skills it needs, and must step up or lose out to the "cool kids" of Google and Amazon, a BHP Group executive said on Thursday.

New research has found that staff on a four-day work week are more productive, with companies which took part in the experiment seeing their revenue dramatically increase.

The passage of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill this week will be followed in 2023 by more industrial relations changes as the government seeks to close “loopholes.”

The departure of over-qualified Pacific Island nurses who are taking up aged care jobs in countries such as Australia has experts concerned the "brain drain" is leaving critical gaps in the region's healthcare systems.  

Food delivery company Menulog has announced job cuts just a week after rival Deliveroo went into administration in Australia, and grocery delivery company Voly shut down.

Workplace coach and Hello Coach chief executive officer Victoria Mills said executives would be better off spending their money on strategies such as increasing the number of annual, sick leave or maternity leave days or other incentives such as bonuses.

There aren't enough welders to create the infrastructure for green energy in Australia, according to industry body Weld Australia.