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Chief economist: The wages of slow wages growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... high. It will take some time to reduce this spare capacity and for the labour market to be tight enough to generate wage increases that are consistent with achieving the inflation target... Looking through this, underlying inflation is expected to remain ...

Chief economist update: Low for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... high. It will take some time to reduce this spare capacity and for the labour market to be tight enough to generate wage increases that are consistent with achieving the inflation target... Looking through this, underlying inflation is expected to remain ...

Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... high. It will take some time to reduce this spare capacity and for the labour market to be tight enough to generate wage increases that are consistent with achieving the inflation target. In the short term, CPI inflation is expected to rise temporarily ...

CBA executive pay voted in

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... sentiments in the meeting and asked how the board can reconcile this remuneration as employees are offered lower wage increases. Livingstone said the bank is still in the process of negotiating the enterprise agreement but there will be an increase for ...

SG increase will be deferred: Knox

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... years. We just have too many businesses struggling in the current environment." Knox said he expects very limited wage increases over the next couple of years and believes while that wage growth remains subdued it will not be appropriate to increase ...

FSU secures super pay increases

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... will get a 10.5% and Media Super will receive 7.2% over three years. "In the last 12 months the FSU has negotiated wage increases right across the sector. In many cases, pay increases of more than 3% were achieved," the FSU said. "We have also secured ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... circumstances, the government will need to both increase support and wages, he concluded. "The more the government opposes wage increases, the more pressure there will be for it to increase spending and/or offer more tax relief if we want the economy ...

A man is not a plan: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... persistently lower than men." WIS chief Sandra Buckley said women should not be asked to trade off rent allowance or wage increases for super. "For too long the structural inequities of the current super system have failed to take account of the women's ...

Cbus chief opposes default longevity requirements for CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... guarantee, or dismantling compulsory super for young people or those on low incomes - a fallacious argument for wage increases," he said.

Increasing SG costly for middle Australia: Grattan

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... super - as they have in the past." Grattan pointed out that compulsory super was originally created to forestall wage increases that could have sparked inflation. "And workers appear to have paid for compulsory super via lower take-home wages. That's ...