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Gazza mate
If you want to get political...
Thanks to Scomo, Australia has unemployment at 50-year lows of 4 per cent after the worst recession since the Great Depression..
And therein lies a point I’m trying to make. Unemployment figures are rubbish. They count people on contracts at a minimum of one hour a week as “fully employed”. They dismiss those who’ve given up looking for work. They don’t count underemployment, or hours per week worked decreasing.
To tie this back into the topic of the thread it’s all well and good for airlines to say “we have employed xxx people” but when those people are on low hour contracts with no guarantees it’s hardly an incentive to put passion into your work. Therefore sick calls increase, productivity decreases and no one answers the phone. And you get situations like what has happened at the terminals in the past few weeks, combined with corporates who refuse to take responsibility for any poor decision on their part.
A job today is increasingly not like a job decades ago. They are temporary, transient, casualised, there’s no loyalty and you are expendable as a piece of rubbish if not required. So when you hear a government tout a low “unemployment rate” or a company tout the fact they have given “jobs” to so many people it’s a just a deflection from the fact that “job” is not of the same worth that it had a few decades ago.