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April 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Mining companies are so desperate for workers some are throwing their selection criteria in the bin and spending money on training raw recruits, the Department of Treasury has found.
In its latest economic round-up, Treasury says recruitment in the mining and energy sectors remains at record levels, with the recent global downturn having no material impact on mining.
“An excess of demand for skilled employees has also seen firms in the mining and related construction sectors becoming less selective in recruitment but spending more on training,” it said on Monday.
As part of its quarterly round-up, Treasury interviews a number of firms and organisations through its business liaison program to try to gauge the pulse of the economy.
During its February and March interviews it also found the mining sector continued to report a strong use of fly-in, fly-out workers, especially from eastern seaboard states.
In contrast, there was a slowdown in recruitment by the non-mining sectors during the second half of 2011 in response to global uncertainty.
Some businesses increased the use of their existing workforce rather than take on new employees.
The non-resource sectors also reported a softening in wage pressures since the middle of 2011, while the mining sector saw strong wages growth, particularly in professions where skill shortages were being felt most acutely.
The Treasury report found that while the resources sector continued to benefit from strong demand from emerging Asian economies, particularly China, firms on the east coast reported that coal production had yet to fully recover from the adverse weather events in early 2011.
It noted a challenging environment in the retail sector, with an elevated Australian dollar seeing customers switching increasingly to online shopping and a greater number of Australians holidaying overseas rather than domestically.
A sustained high dollar also remained a key source of pressure on manufacturers.
“However, firms noted a lowered cost of imported capital equipment as a positive effect of the high exchange rate,” it said.
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