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OneCare upgrades benefit more workers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... products by broadening the number of occupations that qualify for income protection and providing more relief for medical workers. The income protection cover has been extended to mining, oil and gas-related occupations, which includes more than 70 jobs ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... their collective breath ahead of Friday's US employment report. Here, expectations are not good. The drop-off in census workers is expected to reduce the headline non-farm payrolls number by 100,000 in June. Knowing how forecasts could go - they are ...

IFSA rebrands to the Financial Services Council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... ageing population. As part of this strategy, the council will lobby for greater workplace participation rates for older workers. It will also champion further tax reform especially increasing the goods and services tax (GST) that would be offset by removal ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... liabilities of the 50 states amount to US$5.17 trillion, assuming that states cannot default on pension benefits that workers have already earned. Net of the $1.94 trillion in assets, these pensions are underfunded by a massive US$3.23 trillion. "This ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... per cent in a year's time. Unlike other western economies, Australia is heading to a point where the problem is finding workers...not jobs. Then there's the other Asian powerhouse, Japan - if you can still call it that. Its first quarter real GDP growth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... claims last week dropped by the largest amount in almost a year. The drop in total claims provided some hope that laid-off workers are starting to find jobs. LONDON - European stock exchanges ended higher on Thursday after the European Central Bank left ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... International tumbled 3.2 per cent to $HK5.48 after it said it agreed to increase the monthly salary of its production line workers by about 70 per cent. The move came after it last week gave its production line workers in China a 30 per cent pay rise. ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... the odds for a disappointment also increase. And we were disappointed... big time! Especially considering that Census workers contributed more than 400,000 of the 431,000 jobs added last month. And what are Census workers? They are temporary -- here ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... had grown a little more upbeat about the domestic economy in the previous few days. Private employers hired just 41,000 workers in May, down dramatically from 218,000 in April and the lowest number since January, the non-farm payrolls report said. The ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... Europe! The guess. According to Bloomberg, consensus predicts that the US payrolls report would show that some 536,000 workers have found jobs in May. If accurate, this would be the biggest one-month hiring since 1983. Positive reports on jobless claims ...