With the number of unskilled roles shrinking and underemployment on the rise, Workskil Australia Chief Executive Officer, Nicole Dwyer, told a CEDA audience in Perth that a renewed focus on training workers in areas of need could significantly improve employment outcomes. Read more…
06/08/2019
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Preparing-Australian-workers-for-the-job-market-of-the-future
A greater focus on skilling Australians in the workforce will be key to unlocking Australia’s future economic growth, CEDA research has found. Read more…
13/11/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/Media-releases/Skilling-Australia’s-workforce-for-future-technologies-is-key-to-economic-growth-CEDA-research
Economic recovery from COVID-19 will require as much cooperation as possible between government, industry and the union movement “because it is in the best interest of Australians who want to save their job or see job growth increase,” Federal Attorney General and Minister for Industrial Relations, the Hon. Christian Porter, told CEDA’s State of the Nation. Read more…
17/06/2020
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/State-of-the-Nation-saving-jobs-in-the-crisis
There have been plenty of predictions about the future of work; ranging from a 15-hour week to dystopian jobless woe. But so far, according to Productivity Commission Deputy Chair Karen Chester, all the soothsayers have got it wrong. Read more…
19/07/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Technology-remains-the-friend-not-foe-of-the-worker
An ongoing skilled migration policy is essential to attract and recruit the right talent and capabilities we need to transform and compete effectively on a global stage, Telstra Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Penn has told a CEDA audience. Read more…
31/01/2019
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/We-need-to-build-skills-not-walls-Telstra-CEO
Technological disruption and the transformation of our workforce should be a cause for optimism not only concern, according to Microsoft Australia Managing Director, Steven Worrall. Read more…
09/02/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Workforce-transformation-cause-for-optimism-says-Microsoft-Australia-boss