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Skills shortage hits the Gold Coast

There’s a skills shortage of chefs all over Australia. And it’s hit some places, renowned for being food hubs, particularly hard. That includes the...

Testing staff for ice

The situation with ice related crime has now started to affect the hospitality industry. It’s now got to a point where employees on the Gold Coast are...

Job vacancies on the rise

In a good sign for the labour market, job vacancies rose 4.5 per cent in the three months to August, according the Australian Bureau of Statistics. That’s...

Fair Work president suggests replacing penalty rates with “loaded” hourly rates

Fair Work Commission president Iain Ross has bought into the penalty rates debate with a radical idea that would see penalty rates replaced by a “loaded”...

SA power cuts hit business

This week’s South Australia’s power outage and severe weather conditions has left insurers tallying the cost as businesses cut back their operations. BHP...

Crowne Plaza gets the Balthazar makeover

The Crowne Plaza on the Gold Coast will be transformed this Friday with the opening of the Balthazar restaurant. The place is unlike anything you would...

Commodore Hotel on the auction block

The Lantern Group has put the 150 year old Commodore Hotel up for sale. The hotel, which according to popular legend was Henry Lawson’s favourite pub,...

What NOT to do - NSW Register of Penalty Notices as of 29 September 2016

RIVERFRONT KIOSK & CAFE   EVANS HEAD   Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests - presence of...

Hotels deal with digital disruption

Digital operators like Airbnb are emerging as a serious threat to the hotel industry. Airbnb is on the verge of finalising $555 million of funding, securing...

Opposition to backpacker tax changes

So the Government has finally bowed to pressure from farmers, tourism operators, the Nationals and Country Liberal MPs and changed its contentious backpacker...