Most of all it depends on the circumstances that bring out situations like these where either you are employer lead to a point to abandon the job. Legally in place of an employment contract things get a bit dodgy when it comes to premature termination of it by either side. Again it depends on what’s written inside the contract, it might turn out to be a compensatory loss for either employer or employee or the [...]

VICTORIA’S Department of Human Services (DHS) will lose about 500 jobs as part of the state government’s plan to cut 3600 public service jobs to achieve savings across the sector. In a letter to Karen Batt, the Victorian branch secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, DHS secretary Gill Callister announced the job cuts. She said the 500 jobs to go will occur through natural attrition, a recruitment freeze, redundancies and by not extending [...]

THE Australian dollar has fallen a third of a US cent on the back of local employment data. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released at 11.30 (AEDT) on Thursday showed the unemployment rate had stayed steady in December, at 5.2 per cent. November’s unemployment rate was revised down to 5.2 per cent. At 11.29 (AEDT), prior to the data’s release, the Australian dollar was trading at 104.23 US cent. Shortly after the [...]