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Wages grow 0.7% in June quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... healthcare and social assistance, up 5% year on year, while education and training or utilities grew by 4.3% annually. Workers in the financial services and insurance sectors saw a 3.6% annual wage increase. "Private wages tend to be more reflective ...

Australia's safety nets 'stretched too thin': CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... Net report investigates the link between life insurance and the personal and financial wellbeing of some 5000 Australian workers. The report finds that younger workers (aged 18-34 years) are facing significant underinsurance challenges due to lower home ...

ASFA pushes for tax redistribution to benefit low-income workers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... said this change is projected to benefit an additional 1.2 million Australians, the majority of whom are women, young workers, and individuals from non-English speaking backgrounds, improving their financial security in retirement. A 35-year-old with ...

Insignia Financial looks to slash redundancy entitlements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... through assessments conducted on those within its self-employed adviser channel. "That's money that isn't flowing to workers in the form of well-deserved pay increases because of the mistakes of senior management. It clearly shows Insignia values ...

Cbus hires from VFMC for key ESG role

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... will support the creation of long-term returns for members of the $98 billion industry fund for building and construction workers. With 20 years' in institutional investment, she joins from VFMC where she was chief of staff to the chief executive ...

Hostplus nabs top JANA executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
The $110 billion industry fund that looks after hospitality workers has snared a senior property executive from JANA Investment Advisers. Chris Cawson jumped to Hostplus two weeks after the asset consultant lost its infrastructure head to the industry ...

Job mobility falls for first time in three years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... 8.2%, compared to 7.9% for men, after having been higher for men for most of the past decade. Jarvis add that younger workers were still more mobile than older workers, with 12.6% of 15- to 24-year-olds changing jobs. "However, youth job mobility was ...

Four out of five workers to search for new jobs: Hays

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
Recruitment specialist Hays has reported that four out of five New South Wales workers will look for a new job in the next year. According to the Hays Salary Guide, which surveyed more than 15,000 respondents covering 1250 roles across 26 different ...

Industry Super Australia names new chair

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
... joined Hostplus in 2011, becoming chief marketing officer a few years later. He left the industry fund - that looks after workers in the hospitality, tourism and sports industries- in 2018 but rejoined three years later as group executive of marketing ...

Most in-demand skills for financial services workers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
Recruitment at all levels across most categories in the financial services industry has been lacklustre over the 2023/24 year, but there are some skills highly in demand, according to new data from Perceptor. The one exception has been insurance, which ...