{"id":168247,"date":"2025-09-25T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168247\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:21:07","slug":"australian-job-vacancies-fall-in-august-quarter-led-by-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168247\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian job vacancies fall in August quarter, led by private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">SYDNEY (Reuters) -Job vacancies in Australia fell back in the August quarter, led by a drop in the private sector, while the number of unemployed per opening edged higher, pointing to a slight loosening of the labour market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) out on Thursday showed vacancies fell 2.7% in the three months to August, reversing gains made the previous quarter. That left vacancies down 1.5% on a year earlier at 327,200, but still 44% above pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Vacancies in the private sector dropped 3.4%, while those in the public sector rose 2.2%. Vacancies fell in 11 of the 18 industries covered, led by services, while the retail and wholesale sectors saw gains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The ABS noted the number of unemployed people for each vacancy rose to 2.0, from 1.9, the highest level since February 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Employment growth has slowed markedly across the economy in recent months, though the jobless rate has edged up only marginally to 4.1%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Wayne Cole; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY (Reuters) -Job vacancies in Australia fell back in the August quarter, led by a drop in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2444,45,49,48,27709,124,67103,2005],"class_list":["post-168247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-australian-bureau-of-statistics","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-job-vacancies","tag-jobs","tag-private-sector","tag-quarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}