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Despite efforts to improve gender equity in the workplace, women still earn less than their male colleagues and are underrepresented in management. With Smart Company, our CEO Kris Grant suggests 5 ways to promote female representation in workplaces.

Australia’s top five most sought after jobs in Australia has been released in LinkedIn’s 2023 Jobs on the Rise list. Out of the 25 job titles, a technical program manager, clinical exercise physiologist, site reliability engineer, sales development representative and platform engineer have experienced the highest growth in Australia over the past five years.

As International Women’s Day approaches on March 8, demanding equal pay for equal work is essential. According to the most recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the median weekly wage for a man working full time was $1390 in May 2021 and just $1042 for women.

The unemployment rate has fallen to 3.4 per cent – according to the ABS, down from 3.5 per cent, with the number of Australians employed increasing from 13.58 million to 13.61 million. What are the effects on the job market?

With inflation sitting at a 30-year high and the Reserve Bank delivering its seventh interest rate rise this year in November, workers should be demanding a wage rise from January 1, 2023, to avoid a plunge in their real wage next year as living costs soar.

Kris Grant, CEO of ASPL, has written an article in the Dynamic Business’s discussing the five key job trends to emerge in 2023, which has come off the back of job vacancies expanding substantially and unemployment going low as three percent.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released data suggesting many Australians are holding multiple jobs, which has reached record numbers. Our CEO, Kris Grant, indicates this is due to inflation.

Our CEO Kris Grant has shared her HR expertise with the HR Leader, on the Reserve Bank of Australia’s recent delivery of another interest rate rise in November, and the implications on employee wages.