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Payday Super penalties ramped up ahead of legislation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... game-changer," Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Mary Delahunty said. "This reform means workers will see their super build in real-time, alongside their wages. It will mean less lost super and better investment outcomes ...

FSU steps up calls for reproductive leave policies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... (FSU) is urging the financial services industry to adopt paid menopause leave policies as it finds more than one third of workers experiencing symptoms are likely to retire early as a result. In October 2023, the FSU launched its first ever survey on ...

China to raise retirement age from 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
For the first time since the 1970s, China will begin "gradually raising" the national retirement age from next year as it looks to stretch a dwindling pension budget further to sustain its ageing population. The country has approved proposals to raise ...

Growing super balances show more work to be done: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... program is also a factor, with up to one million super accounts being left with less than $1000 in younger, lower-income workers' and single parents' accounts.

Cbus advice lead jumps to Aware

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
After three and a half years at the industry superannuation fund for construction and building workers, Lynda Cross has joined Aware Super as head of guidance. Reporting to Peter Hogg, general manager of guidance and advice, Cross will lead the super ...

APRA alleges First Super co-chair breached director duties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... predecessor, Timber Industry Superannuation Scheme (TISS), from 2006. In July 2008, First Super, TISS, and Pulp and Paper Workers Superannuation Fund (PPWSF) merged to create First Super as it is today. First Super is home to some $4.8 billion in funds ...

FSU campaigns against workplace surveillance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... employees being surveilled unnecessarily and without their prior knowledge. "Additionally, we advocate for the right of workers to access any information collected through surveillance and to ensure that such data cannot be used in disciplinary or performance ...

Australians robbed of super savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
... driven by the misalignment between super and wage payment, creates an unfair playing field where employers who pay their workers' entitlements on time are undercut by those who don't. While the government has pledged to enact payday super reforms by ...

Super's board requirements are sound: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2024
... the employer landscape. And some bring experience in union roles that gives them a strong understanding of the needs of workers," she said. Schubert went on to label the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) a "strong and diligent" regulator ...

Losses further sink Lendlease

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
... will abandon its global international construction operations as part of a broader restructure that will make nearly 3000 workers redundant. It will solely focus on its development and construction business in the Australian market and global investment ...