New Zealand job ads 24% lower than prior year

New Zealand job advertisements on job board Seek fell by 24% in January 2024 when compared to January 2023.

On a month-on-month basis, job ads rose for the first time since August, up 1%. This was also the third increase in 12 months. This was supported by job ad growth in most of the regions, including...

Recruiter arrested after illegally promising jobs in Japan

Authorities in the Philippines today arrested an alleged illegal recruiter promising "fruit picker" jobs in Japan in an entrapment at the compound of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) in Mandaluyong City. 

The recruiter had no licence to offer overseas jobs.

Members of the DMW-Migrant...

India’s urban unemployment rate improves to 6.5%

The urban unemployment in India stood at 6.5% in the three months to December, the lowest since the June 2018 quarter, and down 0.7% over the prior year, reports The Hindustan Times, citing data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey by the National Sample Survey Office. Although the urban unemployment...

Seek merges APAC employment marketplaces into one platform

Job board Seek announced it successfully merged its APAC employment marketplaces, including Seek, Jobsdb and Jobstreet.

The marketplaces will operate under a single system powered by Seek's AI technology, while retaining their individual brands. According to the group, this integration brings together...

South Korea’s temporary workers increase 3.3% in January

The number of temporary workers in South Korea increased by 3.3% year over year to approximately 4.32 million in January 2024, according to data released by Statistics Korea.

When compared to the previous month, the number of temporary workers fell by 3.1% in December 2023. The temporary employment data...

Australia wage growth sees highest increase since 2009

Wages in Australia increased by 4.2% in the December quarter when compared to the corresponding quarter a year ago, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

December’s annual wage growth compared to the September quarter (4.1% yearly growth) and is the highest recorded annual growth...

Australian job agencies suspend Centrelink payments (The Guardian)

Some of Australia’s outsourced employment service providers have effectively suspended the Centrelink payments of more than 90% of the jobseekers on their books, reports The Guardian. Jobseekers have their payments suspended as part of the mutual obligations regime, which is meant to ensure jobseekers...

Quess Corp tax demand order quashed by Madras High Court

Indian staffing firm Quess Corp announced this week that the Honourable High Court of Judicature at Madras quashed the order for income tax demand of INR 605.6 million (USD 7.3 million) and a penalty of INR 60.6 million (USD 0.7 million) against the company.

In October 2023, the company received an order...

Hourly wage for temp workers up 1.9% across Japan’s metro areas

The average hourly wage for temporary workers across three major Japanese metropolitan areas in January 2024 stood at JPY 1,688 (USD 11.25), up 1.9% compared to the same period last year and an increase of 0.2% compared to December 2023, according to research from En Japan.

The JPY 1,688 (USD 11.25) wage...

Seek job ads in Australia fall 17.5% in January

Australian job ads on job board Seek fell by 17.5% in January 2024 when compared to January 2023.

On a month-on-month basis, job ads increased by 1.3% in January 2024. At the same time, applications per job ad rose by 2.1%.

By state, the Northern Territory recorded the only increase (4.0%) when compared...