By Rachel Clun, an economics correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House in Canberra

Increasing numbers of employers are allowing their staff to work on the Australia Day public holiday in exchange for another day of leave.

The AMA has written to a parliamentary committee warning there are at least 106 unfilled junior medical officer roles across South Australia for 2023.

On January 1, 2023, around 1 million Aussies on Centrelink saw their payments rise by roughly $20 a week.Young people, carers and students received a 6 per cent increase on the first day of the year when the most recent indexation kicked in.

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.

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.