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Modern slavery on the rise a decade on from Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... we've seen - Rana Plaza, the Tazreen Fashion factory fire, other disasters - one thing they all had in common was no union representation," Carlsson said. "The factories themselves and many factory owners see unions as troublemakers, and some of ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... report on the matter and the cost to the economy. Data collection is already underway in the form of surveys distributed to union members. "We know with any numbers that it's impossible for them to be accurate... most estimates of this hypothetical ...

Could a four-day workweek save the day?

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... skilled health practitioners from the sector because of that," she explains. Dawson adds that the AAS, the Australian Services Union, and CPSU, which represents public sector workers, are other unions that are keen to see these trials extended to critical ...

State Super welcomes new board member

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... term last month. Costa is currently the assistant secretary of Unions NSW, where his responsibilities include managing the union's communications and digital team as well as its research and industrial strategy. Prior to his role at Unions NSW, he worked ...

First Super awards ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
First Super has appointed IFM Investors to manage a new indexed international equities strategy with a focus on governance and labour rights. The new strategy is designed to provide exposure to a diversified portfolio of global (ex-Australia) publicly ...

Fiducian expands adviser base, increases FUA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
Fiducian saw the number of its financial advisers grow from 66 to 84 representatives in the second half of 2022 and flagged that another five franchises are in the process of joining the fold. Releasing its half-year report on the ASX this morning ...

The great super cover up is over: Bragg

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2023
The government's controversial superannuation regulations that allowed less transparency in super fund payments to unions have been quashed. A motion from Senators Jacqui Lambie and Nick McKim to disallow the proposed regulations passed in the Senate ...

Brighter Super revamps board structure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... Sanders, Neisha Traill, Scott Wilson, and Sarah Zeljko. Further, Smith noted that effective this month the Electrical Trades Union of Qld and NT no longer has a nomination right for a position on the Brighter Super board. He said that while the union ...

Cbus stalwarts retire, union leader returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2022
Cbus Super board directors Anne Donnellan and Frank O'Grady are set to step down, while a retiring union national secretary will return to the fund. Donnellan will be replaced by AMWU national legal coordinator Abha Devasia, while retiring CFMEU ...

What you read in 2022

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
... superannuation fund offered to customers of several small players in Australia's banking sector, closed its doors. Credit Union Building Societies Superannuation, known as CUBS Superannuation, is a retail offering overseen by Equity Trustees Superannuation. ...