The country closed its borders during COVID and told foreign students and backpackers to go home. It is now facing the West's second-worst employee shortage after Canada, with some companies offering signing bonuses and flying them in from overseas.

Mental health organisations share concerns about how students are coping after pandemic closures

Migrants are returning in droves after the COVID-19 pandemic, but border closures will leave Australia's population older and smaller than predicted, a new report warns.

Australia’s labour shortage is expected to continue in 2023 with employers not expecting a great shift in available talent in the forthcoming year.

Education Ministers from across the Commonwealth met virtually today to endorse the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan, which reflects many of the initiatives already in place in NSW through the $125 million Teacher Supply Strategy.

Australia’s jobless rate remained steady in November even as the economy added about 2,000 jobs a day, underscoring the tight conditions in the labour market.

Millions of Australians earned just $50 a week more in the year ending August 2022 compared to the previous 12 months.

Employers argue they're needed to minimise conflict between employees, but experts say a ban on pay secrecy clauses could deliver a number of benefits.

With weeks to go before Christmas, a Gold Coast nail salon is experiencing a threat to its bottom line and it's not from rising inflation.

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