Opinion differs on how to manage staff cutbacks, but outplacement services agree that good workforce communication is crucial to outcomes, as Susan Bower reports.
As more people consider taking a greater hands-on approach to investment management, interest in ethical investing is reportedly increasing. And as Susan Bower reports, information services are keen to assist.
REDUNDANCIES are considered commonplace in the human resources sector and are not viewed in as negative a light as they were a decade ago.
But this is no comfort to Woodside employees at the sticky end of downsizing.
THE role of a university vice-chancellor is that of chief executive officer, ultimately responsible for university activities, affecting the quality of life of future generations as well as the immediate prospects of clients.
COMMERCIAL law partners Godfrey Taylor and Andrew Linfoot this week advanced the growth prospects of their firm with the addition of former Deacons native title specialist Marcus Holmes.
THE Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has followed Australian Taxation Office auditing advice last month with a reminder that rental and capital gains income is in the sights of the ATO.
UNIVERSITY funding cutbacks dating back to the mid-1990s are denying WA students the option of studying some clinical health degree courses at home, a high-profile health sciences professor said this
Two WA native title claims threaten to bring national and State funding issues to a head. In one high-profile WA case, mediation has run in parallel with court hearings, but now the claimants have run out of funds as Susan Bower reports.
WESTERN Australian Entrepreneur of the Year finalist Paul Underwood heads the day-to-day operations of a WA company that has never traded below its 1996 listing price.
WA DOCTORS cannot rest easy about their indemnity position from July 1, while some details of changes in State and Federal Government indemnity support remain unknown, the State’s major medical representative groups said this week.
Using hydrogen as a fuel seems the stuff of futuristic science fiction, however, as Susan Bower reports, that future is closer than most people realise.
WHILE Perth’s trial next year of three hydrogen fuel cell buses forms part of an international trial, it will also produce evaluation opportunities for BP in WA, BOC, Murdoch University and the Wester
