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Big spend on cost of living, defence

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... and the business that employ them are winners out of the government's jobs package, which is aiming to keep the employment rate at a record low. More Australians are in apprenticeships now than since records began in 1968, with 220,000 currently ...

HESTA pushes forward with internalisation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
... and what attracted them to our business, it was really our purpose. These are great investors that have spent their employment working hard in these markets, they are senior people usually coming to a period in their lives where they actually want to ...

UK takes steps to remove gender pay gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
... female counterparts. The UK's minister for women Deborah Stedman-Scott launched initiatives this week "to level up employment opportunities for women". One of the initiatives aims to close salary gaps by publishing a salary range in a job advert and ...

ASIC to strengthen market integrity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
... character" test for market operators was also introduced. Within its Futures Markets Rules, ASIC has replaced the prohibited employment rule with the good fame and character test, extending this test for market operators. A suspicious activity reporting ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... International Labour Organisation backed these findings again. It concluded that at a national level, better female employment increases gross domestic product and at a company level, more women in leadership generates more profits. On the back of similar ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... retire with less than men, including the gender pay gap and the fact women generally take far more time out of paid employment to do unpaid work, such as caring for children and elderly family members. As a society, we need to keep making a concerted ...

Sudden departure for CountPlus chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... not provide details behind the departure, only that Rowe has agreed "to assist with an orderly handover before his employment ends". In early 2017, Rowe took the reins at the ASX-listed wealth management group after working as its director since October ...

AMIST criticised for SPC investment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... accused of wage theft and serious violations of workers' rights. In a 2020 decision handed down by the South Australian Employment Tribunal, OTR was ordered to pay almost $65,000 to one employee who was made to work without any pay. The magistrate overseeing ...

Residential property demand to weaken

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... adding that the potential for unemployment to rise could also derail demand. "Record job vacancies suggest that the employment figures are only going to increase from here, especially as the international borders reopen," he said. With the unemployment ...

Tight labour market not yet producing wage growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... the lowest it has been since 2008 at 6.6% and the unemployment rate is near the level that would be considered 'full employment' by economists. This tight labour market should support a case of wage growth, but that's not happening yet. "Mapping a Phillips ...