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| UpdatedThe owners of the Heyfield sawmill plan to strike a deal to process Tasmanian plantation timber when they relocate to Burnie on the north-west coast
Topics: timber, states-and-territories, state-parliament, community-and-society, regional, unemployment, vic, heyfield-3858
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries is rejecting claims it owes millions of dollars to Laing O'Rourke and said the company had made "significant efforts to resolve" the situation which left hundreds jobless earlier this week.
Topics: oil-and-gas, unions, unemployment, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews says his Government could take the "unconventional" step of taking over the Heyfield timber mill to save more than 250 jobs, after months of uncertainty about the mill's future.
Topics: timber, industry, states-and-territories, parliament, regional, community-and-society, unemployment, unions, heyfield-3858, melbourne-3000
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Topics: unemployment, regional, immigration, longreach-4730
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Topics: unemployment, immigration, regional, longreach-4730
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| UpdatedBusiness operators in Longreach in central west Queensland say they are being forced to look overseas to fill staff positions, after placing numerous ads in local media.
Topics: unemployment, work, immigration, longreach-4730
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's unemployment rate drops despite a national rise, in what an analyst says is an early sign of a positive outlook for the state.
Topics: economic-trends, business-economics-and-finance, unemployment, wa
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| UpdatedUnemployment climbs to 5.9 per cent last month with an estimated 6,400 jobs lost, despite a rise in full-time positions.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, australia
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| UpdatedUS President Donald Trump is taking credit for delivering "tens of thousands of new jobs" and lowering unemployment as he reaches his 50th day in office.
Topics: world-politics, work, donald-trump, unemployment, united-states
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's big shopping centre chains is trialling robotic cleaners, so what does that mean for the future of blue-collar jobs?
Topics: computers-and-technology, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, unemployment, human-interest, retail, homebush-2140, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-development, rural, nt, australia
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Unemployed Darwin tradies are being evicted from rental homes while properties bought five years ago are increasingly selling at a loss, real estate agents say.
Topics: housing, unemployment, human-interest, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedFinancial counselling, career advice and training worth about $4,000 will be offered to every South Australian Coca-Cola employee who will be out of work by 2019.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, salisbury-north-5108, sa
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| UpdatedWith the Fair Work Commission's long-awaited decision on weekend penalty rates handed down, a fierce political fight is reignited between Labor and the Coalition.
Topics: industrial-relations, work, unemployment, hospitality, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedFor the people of Thebarton, the closure of Coca-Cola's bottling plant in Adelaide will be like having "your heart ripped out", a local historian says, who remembers touring the newly opened factory in 1951 as a child.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, company-news, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, sa
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Coca-Cola workers in Adelaide are in shock after the company announced it would close its South Australian manufacturing facilities in 2019.
Topics: company-news, community-and-society, unemployment, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, richlands-4077
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| UpdatedA Coca-Cola employee in Adelaide says workers did not expect the company to close its Thebarton manufacturing facility, and that he fears his reemployment prospects.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, company-news, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, richlands-4077, sa
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Workers at Adelaide's Coca-Cola production factory have had their shifts cancelled and a meeting has been called for Wednesday morning leaving about 150 jobs in doubt, the union says.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, company-news, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedIf you get to work early, stay back late, or put in extra hours at home you are not alone, and experts say workplace culture is driving fulltime workers to do more than 5 unpaid hours every week.
Topics: work, unemployment, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's unemployment rate falls slightly to 5.7 per cent, as a surge in part-time jobs offsets a slump in full-time work.
Topics: economic-trends, unemployment, australia
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Tasmania is hopes to see more homegrown industrial designers to give the advanced manufacturing industry and competitive edge.
Topics: rural, unemployment, globalisation---economy, manufacturing, industrial-design
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Topics: rural, unemployment, globalisation---economy, manufacturing, industrial-design
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A Queensland labour contractor says employment programs need to be more flexible if they want to tackle the shortage of worker in rural industries.
Topics: rural, regional-development, education-industry, unemployment, rural-youth, beef-cattle, farm-labour, community-development, agricultural-policy, mount-isa-4825, maryborough-4650, boulia-4829