New knowledge reveals extra employment positions had been stuffed in February; nevertheless, the nation’s job emptiness fee stays comparatively excessive.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Job Vacancies report, launched on Thursday, confirmed job vacancies had been down 1 per cent between November and February, with 439,000 positions but to be stuffed in February.
ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis mentioned whereas that was additionally down 9 per cent from a peak in May 2022, the emptiness fee nonetheless remained excessive.
“Job vacancies in February 2023 were still nearly double what they were three years ago, just before the start of the pandemic,” he mentioned.
“There is still a very high demand for labour from employers across Australia and across all industries.”
The figures present related emptiness fee drops in each the private and non-private sectors, the third consecutive quarter drop.
Western Australia recorded the most important quarterly share decline in job vacancies, down 15 per cent, whereas NSW recorded the most important share quarterly progress, up 9 per cent.
“While there have been some recent falls in job vacancies in some states and territories, they continue to be high in all states and territories,” Mr Jarvis mentioned.
Job vacancies fell in 11 of the 18 industries recorded however remained excessive throughout most industries when put next with February 2020 – the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This continued to be most acute in the accommodation and food services and arts and recreation services industries, where vacancies were around three to four times what they were before the pandemic,” mentioned Mr Jarvis.
The ABS’ Labour Force report for February, launched earlier in March, confirmed a drop in unemployment to three.5 per cent, seasonally adjusted.
Also launched on Thursday was the ABS report on preschool training figures for 2022, displaying enrolment for 4 or five-year-olds in a preschool program was down 1.3 per cent in contrast with 2021.
However, there was additionally a 2.7 per cent enhance in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children of the identical age enrolled in preschool in 2022 in contrast with the earlier 12 months.
More than 95 per cent of the 334,440 youngsters enrolled in a preschool program in 2022 had been enrolled for 15 hours or extra per week.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
