Keeping skills during hard times: a discussion paper
As a nation Australia needs to do three things to cope with the worsening economic climate: look to alternatives to firing and invest in skills; repair the safety net to avoid poverty and dislocation; and ensure retrenched workers get the most effective assistance to get back to work quickly. Measures to increase access to redundancy entitlements, early intervention and case management should be more widely available, rather than based on a lottery approach dependent on whether a person works in a specific industry subject to special government supports, the number of employees at the firm, or ... Show more
Authors: Wren, Toni
Published: Sydney, New South Wales, Dusseldorp Skills Forum, 2008
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 27 p.
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