Older workers will need the right to request workforce flexibility if Australia is to meet its future labour market needs, the latest work and life survey from the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Work and Life shows.
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01/10/2012
On 3 October, Infrastructure NSW (INSW) released its 20 year strategy at a CEDA event in Sydney, which includes more 70 recommendations for the 20 years that will add $50 billion and create 100,000 jobs for the State.
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01/10/2012
With demand from China flattening, Australia’s resources sector need to stay competitive with skills and taxation reform, Queensland Resources Council, CEO, Michael Roche heard a CEDA forum in Brisbane.
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01/10/2012
Smart electricity meters and high summer peak tariffs must be introduced in Australia to help even out demand for electricity and reduce pressure on prices, AGL Chief Economist and Group Head of Corporate Affairs, Professor Paul Simshauser has told a CEDA forum on energy and hardship in Adelaide.
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01/10/2012
For the first time, a housing construction grant of $8500 to build a new home or apartment will be available for not only first home owners but for everyone, announced SA Premier, Jay Weatherhill at a CEDA forum in Adelaide.
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01/10/2012
South Australia has a chance to build its mining industry in a way that fosters other industries rather than cannibalises them while the Olympic Dam expansion is “on hold”, a CEDA mining forum has heard.
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01/10/2012
CEOs must tackle pervasive gender bias and find ways to promote women if their businesses are to survive skilled workforce shortages and reach consumers, SA business leaders told a CEDA audience in Adelaide.
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01/10/2012
Business leaders and board members have to “walk the talk” to make their workplaces more flexible and to retain a broad range of staff in an era of labour force shortages, a CEDA forum in Adelaide has heard.
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01/10/2012
The opportunities that arise with the emergence of the Asian century won’t come at the expense of Tasmania’s relationship with the US, Premier of Tasmania, Lara Giddings told a CEDA audience in Hobart at Tasmania’s State of the State forum.
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01/10/2012
While the financial regulatory system in Australia is not broken, the Wallis Inquiry of 1997 was designed for a different era and the blueprint is out of date, Deloitte Access Economics, Partner, Professor Ian Harper has told a CEDA audience in Melbourne.
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01/10/2012