Government axe falls at taxing time: union

The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has taken aim at the Federal Government for axing more than one hundred jobs across the Australia Taxation Office (ATO) at a time when its productivity cuts are already placing significant demands on the public service. 133 tax workers from predominantly regional areas were sacked last week as […]

13 January, 2009

NSW Council eyes UK job seekers

Griffith City Council is hoping to attract skilled workers from the UK and across Europe to fill vacant positions.    The NSW council will attend the Work Worldwide Expo in Manchester and London, in attempt to source skilled labour to fill vacancies in the region’s health sector as well as the council’s own planners and […]

7 November, 2008

Financial meltdown producing a rich skills pool

Government HR managers and public sector recruiters should be proactively going after the thousands of Australians who’ve lost their jobs in the financial crisis with incentives to return home, a top recruitment consultant has said. With thousands of jobs lost in Europe and the US in recent months, a huge number of Australians have come […]

30 October, 2008

US State Government recruits from Second Life

The 3-D virtual world Second Life. In an innovate move to tackle its ageing IT workforce, the state of Missouri has recruited its first IT employee from an internet-based virtual world. According to a Government Technology report, Missouri last year launched a recruiting site and job fairs in Second Life, an online 3-D community where ‘residents’ […]

3 October, 2008

WA first state to adopt skills shortage program

The Western Australian workforce will be the first to benefit from a Federal Government program designed to address skills shortages across a range of industries. The Productivity Places Program aims at providing 450,000 new training places nationally over the next four years. WA is the first state to join the program, piloting an initiative to […]

14 May, 2008

Local government a

By Jane Garcia in Sydney NSW Local Government Minister Paul Lynch has expressed his desire not have a ‘schoolmaster’ relationship with the state’s councils but work together to “develop solutions to our joint challenges so local government is indeed helping to drive NSW forward” Speaking at the Shires Association annual conference in Sydney on Tuesday […]

5 June, 2007

Guidelines tackle alcohol and drugs at work

By Adam Coleman WorkCover NSW has launched revised guidelines to tackle alcohol and other drug use in the workplace to help employers identify and manage the risks. According to WorkCover NSW CEO, Jon Blackwell,  the guide provides practical and workable solutions, and encourages employers to manage risks associated with drug and alcohol use by adopting […]

9 February, 2007

NSW job sites aim to attract council employees

By Adam Coleman The Local Government and Shires Association (LGSA) of New South Wales and MyCareer.com.au have joined forces to create an online job site that specifically promotes local government positions. “The reason we are doing this is because there wasn’t an easy way to specifically look for local government jobs,” LGSA design and development […]

10 November, 2006