“We need to look at all options to encourage work participation, because there are likely people out there who would help if they were allowed to or were not financially disadvantaged by doing so.”James Jackson, NSWFA
Regional businesses continue to struggle to find staff even as recently released labour force data shows the unemployment rate beginning to creep higher.
The unemployment rate for the Orana Far West region, which includes western plains communities, was back in familiar territory at the end of December 2021, reaching 4.8%, slightly higher than . . .
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