Economists believe the labour market has proved resilient in the face of the Omicron variant, even though jobs growth was slow to pick up in the early stages of 2022.
Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows payroll jobs rose by one per cent in the fortnight to January 15, after a 6.8 per cent decline in the previous two weeks.
In the equivalent two weeks in December 2020, payroll jobs fell 6.4 per cent before rising by 3.7 per cent in the first two weeks of January 2021.
