TASMANIAN small businesses are facing a desperate struggle to find staff as the state's unemployment rate hits an all-time low.
Also, they are having to pay higher wages to retain the workers they do get in a market favouring job-seekers.
With unemployment at 4.4 per cent, the critical staff shortage, particularly in trained workers, has become a huge impediment to growth, the business sector says.
While the job figures are good news for the nation's jobseekers, it comes with a dark side.
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Article from: The Mercury; By Tim Martain
June 15, 2008
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