Australia’s workforce shortage: ‘never a better time to be applying for a job’, experts say
by Peter Hannam from on (#5R35F)
Post-lockdown recovery has workers well placed to cash in on labour shortages by demanding higher wages
When Jan McKenzie first heard Guardian Australia journalists had arrived without notice at her Cafe Sydney restaurant on a frantic Friday afternoon, her first question in jest was, can they wait tables this weekend?"
Just three days after reopening from almost four months of lockdown, McKenzie has been run ragged trying to lure back staff to meet the burst of bookings for her elegant eatery overlooking Circular Quay.
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