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Financial Circle director convicted, fined

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2023
... Circle, giving instructions to other employees and officers of the company, including its directors, and dealing with staff, wages and invoices, telemarketing scripts, website content and the sale of client books. At the time of the alleged offending ...

Unemployment rate rises to 3.7%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2023
... starting to loosen." Bloxham said this is good news for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), as it will take pressure off wages growth and inflation. "Falling employment and a rising unemployment rate would typically be thought of bad news for the economy. ...

I know it's hard, but it could be harder: Lowe

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... hit off it. There's a chance that we can do this; it's not guaranteed but there is a chance," he said. Regarding wages, Lowe added there are risks if salaries are matched with inflation. "One risk would obviously be that people say, 'Inflation ...

Government introduces gender pay gap bill

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... increase the low income super tax offset (LISTO). "Paying the super guarantee on paid parental leave, the same way as we do on wages, is one of the ways we can reduce the impact on retirement savings from time taken out of the workforce to care for children. ...

Downside risk dominates Australia's economic outlook: IMF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2023
... economic outlook dominate, with uncertainty regarding global growth, commodity prices, and domestic developments surrounding wages, house prices, and tighter monetary conditions. As such, economic growth is expected to slow from 3.6% to 1.6% in 2023 ...

Stop penalising women: HESTA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... concessions. It explained due to super being taxed at 15%, lower income earners in the bottom brackets are hit harder on super than wages, while workers in the second lowest tax bracket received no tax benefit on their super. It argued that the government's ...

ISA renews calls for super to be paid with wages

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
Changing the requirement to pay super with wages will drastically reduce unpaid super and give four million plus workers better investment returns, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA). In its pre-budget submission, ISA said that the "outdated ...

Four themes driving 2023: Iggo

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... months of 2023 will be telling," he said. "The first half of the year tends to see the highest monthly increases in prices as wages and prices are increased. Given the amount of industrial action currently plaguing Europe there are some upside risks." ...

Salary inflation becoming S issue for ESG managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2023
... to come to work, that's going to hit industrial relations as well." One way to mitigate or manage upward measures on wages is improving workforce engagement, Carlsson added. "It's about quality management and sustainable earnings," Carlsson said. ...

Australia's 1% just keep getting richer: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023
... globe are increasing by $3.6 billion a day, while 1.7 billion workers live in countries where inflation is now overtaking wages. "Globally, the richest 1% have made nearly twice as much money as the rest of the world put together over the past two years," ...