Chicken is back on the menu after workers at Australia's largest poultry producer declared victory in a pay dispute that threatened to disrupt the nation's chook supply.
Businesses are delivering the strongest rate of wages growth in more than decade, as the national private sector wages bill rose by 3.6 per cent in 2022, compared to 2.5 per cent in the public sector, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
The covid-19 pandemic impacted all fields of work, some grew busier while others struggled to stay afloat. The Australian music industry is still finding its way out of the darkness with the Audoo Audio Meter Device hoping to help.
Workers will wait two more years for a lift in real wages after the Albanese government's first budget warned inflation would outstrip pay growth until 2024/25.