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Low wage growth a deliberate design feature: ACTU

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
... in Award wages, a crackdown on wage theft and public backing of fair pay rises that reflect a fair share of labour productivity growth. On what economists saw as the best government policies to help deliver higher wages, an Economic Society of Australia ...

Super's defense against economic volatility

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
... has endured, relatively unscathed from the political tensions that grip our allies. GDP growth has been slow as has productivity, cost of living has ballooned and wages have stagnated in spite of low unemployment, but to a great extent, the enduring ...

Labor promises cheap childcare, climate action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2022
... economic distortion that stops mothers in particular from working more than three or four days a week. It will boost productivity and workforce participation across the economy." The Labor party plans to reduce the cost of child care by lifting the maximum ...

Flexible work expectation gap widens

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... from home', there is a growing body of research that finds remote working not only supports a worker's individual productivity in performing routine work, but it could boost it," the research found. "Hybrid working 2.0 is a business imperative that drives ...

Big tech, interest rates dominate reporting season

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
... prop up opportunities for technology, with the sector supporting other businesses and helping older workers improve productivity, according to Swell Asset Management chief investment officer Lachlan Hughes. "Technology companies have benefited from greater ...

Financial services vulnerable to insider cybersecurity threats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
... activities. The research suggested that because employees are increasingly granted access to more information to enhance productivity in today's work-from-anywhere workforce, malicious insiders are actually harder to detect than external attackers ...

Environmental goals edge out social issues

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
... eradicating hunger is interconnected with managing the impact of climate change and biodiversity on agricultural productivity. "Trying to entirely disaggregate E and S issues and weigh up their relative importance could ultimately be a distraction from ...

T. Rowe Price launches new impact fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... on three areas of impact: climate and resources, social equity and quality of life, and sustainable innovation and productivity guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). It also excludes certain industries and companies, including ...

It will pay to keep employees happy: Fink

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
... this new reality and responding to their workers do so at their own peril. Turnover drives up expenses, drives down productivity, and erodes culture and corporate memory," he said. Chief executives should be asking themselves whether they are creating ...

Digital advice predicted to soar in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
... 365, Finura said. "Expect to see strong growth in Microsoft ISV's (Independent Software Vendors) rolling out new productivity tools purpose-built for wealth," the firm said.