One of Australia’s biggest banks will close five more branches in two major cities as in-person banking services continue to fall off across the country. Westpac, the ASX-listed $93bn behemoth, has confirmed it will close four subsidiary Bank of Melbourne branches in Broadmeadows, Airport West, Werribee Plaza and South MorangContinue Reading
Australia’s major supermarkets have been accused of treating customer like thieves by rapidly expanding hi-tech surveillance inside stores, new analysis claims. As Woolworths and Coles face unprecedented scrutiny and grapple with mounting anger from shoppers, their growing security measures have been thrust under the spotlight again. And a new surveyContinue Reading
Supermarket giant Coles has signed a major deal with an American data intelligence firm that provides high-level analytical technology to the CIA and the Pentagon. Experts warn the arrangement with Palantir could lead to job losses and vast cost-cutting, as the company seeks to save $1 billion in operating expensesContinue Reading
More than 65,000 Australians workers found themselves out of a job in December in a further sign that the economy is cooling under the impact of higher interest rates. While the number of part-time positions rose by 41,400 this was offset by the loss of 106,600 full-time positions, the AustralianContinue Reading
The NSW government will move to cement a deal to protect the jobs of 3000 workers at Sydney’s struggling Star casino in exchange for significantly reduced pokies tax rates. Legislation to confirm the arrangement will be introduced to parliament this week. The announcement comes as Sydney’s major casinos, The StarContinue Reading
Short term rental owners have hit out at the Victorian government’s new 7.5 per cent tax on short stay accommodation announced yesterday as part of the Andrews government’s Housing Statement. Among the criticisms are a lack of detail over how the tax will work, a lack of consideration over howContinue Reading
The collapse of three businesses owned by a longstanding Adelaide construction company has left around 136 staff without jobs. Anthony Phillips from insolvency firm Heard Phillips Lieberenz, with heading up the liquidation of Wake Concepts, Wake Carpentry and Wake Construction Group Pty Ltd, which are all owned by the WakeContinue Reading
A millionaire property developer who bluntly told Aussie tradies they are being paid too much to do too little and that unemployment needed to rise so workers experienced “pain” has issued an apology and declared he “deeply regrets” the remarks. Gurner Group chief executive Tim Gurner, 40, blamed the CovidContinue Reading
Australia’s jobless rate held steady at 3.7 per cent in August after the economy added a bumper 64,900 jobs across the month in the latest sign that Australia is on track to avoid a hard landing. Growth in part-time jobs made up the lion’s share of the employment gains, upContinue Reading
A workplace expert has called for Australia to fall in line with its overseas counterparts and increase annual leave from four weeks to six. Workers haven’t seen any increases to annual leave since the mid-1970s Whitlam era when unions successfully pushed for an increase from three to four weeks leave.Continue Reading