JobMaker hiring credit for young meets 1% of its target Economy & Industry The JobMaker scheme has only hired 5,278 unique eligible employees as of September 6, with just 4081 employers benefiting from the scheme.
Premium Case studies Tackling youth unemployment through codesign in Melbourne’s west August 3, 2020 By David Donaldson Case studies Melbourne’s western suburbs suffer persistently high youth unemployment. One program is rethinking the problem through codesign and place-based interventions.
The next employment challenge from coronavirus: how to help the young April 16, 2020 By Jeff Borland Economy & Industry Young Australians are going to be hardest hit by the COVID-19 recession. Partly this is because the young are always hardest hit during economic downturns — needing to make the transition from education to work at a time when there are few new jobs on offer.