General Motors Holden have announced plans to lay off swathes of white collar workers.
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Tips and rumours: Will Albo’s free kick be an own goal?
Anthony Albanese gets his community offside over fig trees, things hot up in Coober Pedy, Sackwatch news, and more from our tipsters.
Tips and rumours: Another refugee boat intercepted?
Rumours are surfacing that Immigration chiefs are worried stiff this morning about overcrowding on Christmas Island on the back of Unannounced Boat Number 14 (UBN14*)…
Tips and rumours: The Utegate edition of tips & rumours
Who is Godwin Grech?
Sackwatch 12: Unemployment figures may be staying put for a while…
Crikey continues to track the job-loss carnage.
SackWatch 11: the shutters come down
Unemployment data released this morning has confirmed the suspicion among economists that the April jobless figure was a blip on the radar.
SackWatch 10: place your bets before the deluge
Centrebet has launched a betting market on how high unemployment might go, with the smart money saying last month’s jobless drop will be erased in May.
Crikey’s SackWatch on ABC2
Featuring: Andrew Crook’s beard, Sophie Black going home, the back of Jonathan Green’s head, First Dog kicking back with his foot on the desk, and our not-at-all-missed old website.
Tips and rumours: What is a leak? Job losses at News Ltd?
A robust round of SackWatch rumours in today’s edition of tips and rumours.
Axe-o-meter, like Crikey’s SackWatch but worse
Vanity Fair updates its New Establishment list with the numbers of jobs lost in recent months. The figures make Crikey’s SackWatch look like sunshine and rainbows.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: War against Taliban: military equivalent of global warming
Crikey readers weigh in on Afghanistan, Budget fundraising, paying for newspaper content online, SackWatch and jumps racing.
SackWatch 9: forget the ABS, we’ve got the real story
Crikey continues to document the jobs carnage at the front line with the ninth instalment of our SackWatch column.
SackWatch compiled: Crikey’s list of corporate shame
Crikey has been following the jobs fallout since early January, with five items to date on the jobs crisis threatening to taint Kevin Rudd’s leadership.
SackWatch 8: we track the jobs carnage
Australia’s looming unemployment crisis continues to gather momentum with economists scrambling to re-adjust their jobless forecasts.
Tips and rumours: Easter bunnyload of hot tips
A bucketload of anonymous tips sent to Crikey. Has KPMG sacked 50 people in Perth? And is The Gruen Transfer offending its audience?
SackWatch: The firings keep coming as job ads fall by 45%
Since Crikey published its sixth SackWatch update last week, the tips box has again been running rampant with fresh tales of shoulder-tapping in businesses across the nation, reports Andrew Crook.
SackWatch: unemployment heads to double digits
After a three week hiatus, Crikey’s SackWatch is back in full swing.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Bankers’ bonuses are not entirely evil. However…
Crikey readers argue that bankers’ bonuses are indeed inflated: “It is misleading to compare bonuses in the financial sector to commissions for salespeople. Salespeople cannot expose their employer to the risk that traders can.”
Google sacks 200 in sales and marketing
This is an unfamiliar place for the search giant, whose hockey-stick growth in search has funded massive expansion into new businesses and philanthropic activities. Google has doubled staff in the past two years, growing from 10,674 at the end of 2006 to 22,222 at the end of last year.
SackWatch update: corporate carnage continues
Crikey’s tips box has been running hot following last Friday’s SackWatch meta-list, with a number of new corporates pressing the panic button, writes Andrew Crook.
SackWatch: PacBrands … Lonely Planet … Blakes … ATO
Yesterday’s staggering announcement that manufacturing icon Pacific Brands will sack 1,850 workers could just be the tip of the iceberg, writes Andrew Crook.
SackWatch: KPMG … CSR … Virgin Blue … Tanner
Crikey’s SackWatch is now up to its fourth installment with another huge spate of lay-offs announced in the last week, writes Andrew Crook.
SackWatch: Ninemsn… MacBank… Harvey Norman… GE…
Crikey’s SackWatch continues apace with a spate of sackings, disappointing employment data and job surveys upping the pressure on the Senate to pass Kevin Rudd’s $42 billion stimulus package, writes Andrew Crook.
SackWatch: 1.5 million and counting
The Crikey army has responded in predictably feisty style to our inaugural SackWatch list, with tips piling in from across the country.
SackWatch: new Crikey list
Australia clearly isn’t immune from the global depression, so Crikey thought it was about time to assess the jobs carnage unfolding on the home front.
