Jobs are being created aren't they ?
That's what the government keeps telling us.
Yea, driving for yourself while driving for Uber, AustraliaPost etc. is a job. It's being your own boss except you're being told what to do, have no negotiating power and barely make any money while your real boss takes a large chunk of earnigs you help generate, put it towards automating your job.
On the lower pay scale people are earning jack. On the higher white collar pay scale, people earn better but the parasite still managed to do jack all and get about 30% of their pay.
Gotta admire the genius that goes into rigging a system where you make money by doing nothing and call it entrepreneurialship.
Obviously a massive shortage of fruit pickers, shame we can't find Australian's, with the skill set.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...ought-and-visa-shortages-20181017-p50a6g.html
I really don't know I haven't been involved in the industry, but it seems crazy, that fruit is just allowed to fall and rot. Due to lack of people to pick it, or lack of equipment to pick it.
Labour hire companies should be outlawed in my opinion in agriculture, it's just too easy to blame really bad situations on each other & nothing ever happens, possibly a new labour hire company is used. Out of the roughly 20 agriculture companies I've worked for(I'm in IT myself) only about 2-3 have good relations with picking/seasonal staff, the rest treat those workers like garbage. It's a real shame considering the amount of support farmers expect the community to show them.You could live right next to some of these farms but they won’t employ you because the labour hire companies only take backpakers who then spend much of their wages renting accommodation from the same company.
So long as that goes on, I’ll have precisely zero sympathy for the farmers with whatever problems they’re having. Give local workers an opportunity and I’ll change my view.
Obviously that won’t be happening everywhere but it’s a definite problem.
Small business is no big deal says Ross Gittins.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/bu...l-sauce-for-jobs-20181012-p5099r.html?ref=rss
He's right that the tax cuts wouldn't create more jobs, just handed more money back to the business owners. But it's misleading to say that small/medium businesses isn't important because it doesn't show high job "growth".
I don't think he's saying that small business is "not important", just that it's not as important as the small business owners think it is. Everyone talks up their own book.
I don't think he's saying that small business is "not important", just that it's not as important as the small business owners think it is. Everyone talks up their own book.
I don't think he's saying that small business is "not important", just that it's not as important as the small business owners think it is. Everyone talks up their own book.
Including Ross Gittens, I have never found his articles, very enlightening. I suppose that happens, when you have to write a column on a regular basis, they tend to write the same thing 1,000 different ways. IMO
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