* ACT - Government gives older truckies a Restart
-- Minister for Employment Senator, Eric Abetz, has announced that the Australian Government’s Restart program has helped 173 older Australians find transport, postal and warehousing jobs... Restart offers employers up to $10,000 in wage subsidies to help with recruitment and related costs when they hire an eligible job seeker aged 50 or over... The 173 placements were reportedly made in the period 1 July 2014 to 15 September 2015... In the same period, there have been 42 Restart agreements recorded as truck drivers and 31 recorded as delivery drivers in the transport, postal and warehousing industries. Across all industries, there were 85 Restart agreements recorded as truck drivers and 79 recorded as delivery drivers... Abetz urged employers to consider taking on older workers and to find out how Restart and other jobactive programs can help...
Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory - Prime Mover - 27 September 2015
** South Australia - Truck drivers could be jailed if low gear not used on South Eastern Freeway descent in Adelaide Hills
-- Truck drivers who fail to engage low gear when descending the South Eastern Freeway in the Adelaide Hills could be jailed under legislation the South Australian Government is drafting... Transport Minister Stephen Mullighan said the Government was responding to coronial recommendations over the deaths of two men in separate cases when trucks going down the freeway got out of control...
(Photo from ABC News: A coronial recommendation the freeway get a third arrester bed was rejected by the Transport Department) -- Adelaide, S.A., Australia - ABC net, by Leah MacLennan - 23 Sept 2015
* ACT - Transport industry questions Australia’s innovativeness
-- National Australia Bank (NAB) has uncovered a distinct mismatch in perception when it comes to Australian businesses rating their own ability to innovative and that of the domestic economy as a whole... In a new study, the Bank found that only 13 per cent of all firms rate Australia as a “highly innovative” environment, but more than one in four would identify themselves as a highly innovative business... The mismatch is especially strong in the transport and storage industries, where conditions are considered especially bad while businesses are still slightly confident or at least neutral about their own abilities... What's more, around 70 per cent of firms believe Australia to be at least “mildly” innovative, prompting NAB to suggest that there could be a misunderstanding about the nation’s true innovation potential...
Canberra, ACT, Australia - Prime Mover - 29, September 2015
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