Industry News

International recruitment specialist Hays has released the top ‘hot jobs’ for the second quarter of 2013, finding that insurance professionals, childcare staff and energy workers are among some of the most in demand skill sets.

As an employer or HR manager, it’s a sad, but often inevitable, fact that an employee will hand in their resignations over course of your career.

The bid to see the super trawler Abel Tasman operate in Australian waters has taken another blow after the Federal Government barred two large complementary commercial fishing vessels from operating in the Small Pelagic Fishery for two years.

The social impacts of the emergent phenomenon of fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) work is set to be put under the research microscope after the University of Queensland announced a research initiative into the practice.

Mining giant BHP Billiton has announced it has signed a final agreement for the sale of its Pinto Valley copper mining operations in Arizona to Vancouver based Capstone Mining Corp for US$650 million.

Energy giant Chevron has announced it has enjoyed further drilling success in the Exmouth Plateau area, near the Carnarvon Basin in Western Australia.

The 12-year boom in engineering works stretching back to 2001 has come to an abrupt halt, according to business research specialist BIS Shrapnel.

The Federal Government has announced the tender to deliver the Pimlico to Teven Pacific Highway upgrade is now open, with interested companies now having until 29 May to submit their bids.

Energy giant Santos has announced it has committed to a $100 million drilling and appraisal program over the coming 12 months in the onshore Mereenie field in the Northern Territory.

WorkCover NSW has urged the state’s employers to and their staff to remember those who have died in the workplace on 28 April, the International Day of Mourning.

Safe Work Australia has renewed its push for quad bike manufacturers to immediately reconsider their decision not to install crush protection devices to quad bikes.

WorkSafe Victoria has announced it is continuing with investigations into the collapse of a wall in Melbourne that led to the tragic deaths of three pedestrians at the construction site in the city’s north.

Excellence in the field of workplace health and safety has been acknowledged on the national scale once again, with the winners of this years 8^th annual Safe Work Australia Awards named at a gala ceremony at the Old Parliament House earlier this week.

Chinese petrochemical and plastics giant Qenos has officially opened its new $195 million manufacturing centre in Melbourne’s west.

The Victorian Government has announced it has given the green light for a $36 million public transport project for the delivery of increased tram services to Melbourne’s Docklands precinct.

Australians now have a memorial to pay tribute to those killed by workplace accidents or diseases, after the Federal Government officially unveiled the National Workers Memorial in Canberra earlier this week.

The nation’s airports will need a drastic increase in infrastructure investment in order to cater for the projected booms in passenger number, a new report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has found.

Master Builders Australia has come out swinging at the Federal Government’s renewed campaign against apparent abuses of 457 working visas.

Master Builders Australia (MBA) has expressed grave misgivings over the proposed changes to compliance testing by the National Skills Standards Council (NSSC).

Data storage specialists NEXTDC has announced it has secured a deal with Optus that will see the telco deliver its new range of enterprise cloud, data centre and IP network services to NEXTDC customers.