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Colin Brinsden, AAP Economics and Business Correspondent

Businesses held back as jobs go unfilled

The retail sector is one of the hardest hit by worker shortages, with 40,300 jobs up for grabs. (AAP)

The tightest labour market in decades sounds good on paper with an unemployment rate of 3.9 per cent, but businesses are up in arms over their inability to fill job positions.

New figures showed there were almost half a million job vacancies in May, more than double the number recorded in February 2020 before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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