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Monday, May 16

Pandemic taking heavy toll on health, morale of Aussie scientists

Job losses, mounting workloads and fatigue are eroding the morale of Australia’s science workforce.

Shell QGC admits job losses loom but won't say how many

Shell QGC has downplayed reports that about 180 jobs had been scheduled to go from its Queensland operations as part of its global restructuring.

Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka has struck a deal with United

Virgin in a bind over thousands of jobs as Qantas cuts fares

Virgin has rejected claims that it has plans to sack thousands more workers when the JobKeeper subsidy ends in March.

Qantas job losses reach 8500 as it dumps ground staff to save $100m

Qantas has told 2000 employees that their jobs were gone and it would move to outsource ground handling operations at 10 airports across Australia as it works to recover from the COVID crisis.

New Hope's campaign fails but will still push for mine approval

Despite a damaging campaign in the State election, coal miner New Hope Group wants to get in front of the new Resources Minister Scott Stewart to ask for approval of its $900 million Acland mine expansion project.

Redundancies to top 4000 as Flight Centre shuts another 90 stores

Flight Centre will shut another 90 stores and a further 60 will remain in “hibernation” for the next six to 12 months.

Four key risks as universities face losing one in 10 roles

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a sudden and very big decline in Australian universities’ revenue as a result of the loss of international student enrolments. Being excluded from the Federal Government’s JobKeeper program has forced universities to embark on immediate and sustained cost-cutting.