Retail Labor & Staff Shortages

Urgent action needed as retail labour vacancies surge to 49,900

Australia’s peak retail body, the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) is calling for further urgent action from federal and state governments to alleviate chronic labour shortages. 

The scale of the labour shortage crisis impacting retail continues to worsen with new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released today showing 49,900 vacancies across the retail sector in November 2022 – an increase of 8.2% compared to August 2022. 

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