This report highlights the topical issue of employers’ experiences with retention issues providing insights across industries and occupation groups. It provides an overview, staff replacement rates, reasons for replacing staff, impacts on businesses and strategies used to retain staff. It finds that high staff turnover is hurting productivity and pushing up recruitment and training costs.

The roadmap provides an overarching national framework to empower stakeholders to work collaboratively to improve the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of the jobs and skills system across Regional Australia. It identifies cross-cutting themes, develops performance indicators and provides an overall assessment of the way forward with ten policy principles to inform and shape future policies.

This paper examines the proportion of recruiting employers who reported having difficulty in filling their most recent vacancies, referred to as the ‘recruitment difficulty rate’, and how it affects business performance. Employers who most recently recruited for community and personal service workers were, on average, the most likely to report a negative impact on their...

This report provides information on Australian labour market conditions for people interested in working in Australia on a temporary or permanent basis and organisations providing services to migrants and visa applicants. The report notes that while the Australian labour market continues to perform well, there are ongoing signs of an easing of labour market conditions.

An interactive resource that provides an overview of the Australian labour market at the national, state and regional level by occupation, industry and training. It provides data on employment, job vacancies, median weekly earnings, active businesses, skill shortages, and apprentices and trainees.