Payroll jobs rose slightly in the first weeks of March, only partially recovering from the earlier impact of the floods along the east coast of Australia.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said payrolls rose 0.2 per cent in the fortnight to March 12 following a 0.8 per cent drop in the second half of February.
ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis said the results coincided with adverse weather conditions and flooding in NSW and Queensland in late February, the continuing influence of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and easing of pandemic restrictions across the country.
