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Super funds are lousy at communications: Strategist

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... educated, and they tend to be more male," Ralph said. "They're often earning quite decent income because they're hard workers... Super to them is just another tax, "politicians taking my money"." Meanwhile, Lavish Mod Cons are moderate conservatives ...

State Super welcomes new board member

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... industrial officer and lawyer with the national offices of the Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union and the Australian Workers' Union. He also worked as a solicitor for Slater & Gordon Lawyers and the HIV Aids Legal Centre (HALC). State Super ...

First Super awards ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2023
... decade," First Super chief executive Bill Watson told FS Sustainability. "Whether it's Dominos and underpayment of workers, 7-11, Qantas contracting out pretty much all of its services, the big retailers - they've all been involved in one type ...

Super tax break crackdown to hit $410bn in savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2023
... system, such as increasing the low-income superannuation tax offset (LISTO) ceiling to $45,000 a year to ensure low-income workers are not paying more tax on their super than on their wages." Similarly, FSC chief executive Blake Briggs said: "The FSC ...

Dataset to ease policy planning for ageing population

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023
... for the average Australian as well as how their level of education changes things. In doing so, KPMG found Australian workers' expected age of retirement is the oldest it's been since the early 1970s, with highly educated workers driving the trend into ...

Government introduces gender pay gap bill

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... transparency. The Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023 requires employers with 100 or more workers to publicly disclose gender pay gap data, commencing 2024. The Bill sets out six gender equality indicators against ...

Stop penalising women: HESTA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... 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 Low Income Super Tax ...

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 ...

Brighter Super welcomes chief people officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
Brighter Super has named Allanna Kelsall as the fund's chief people officer. The $30 billion industry fund for workers in the energy and local government was created by the merger of LGIAsuper and Energy Super, and the acquisition of Suncorp's ...

Insignia saves thousands of hours with AI

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
... efficiencies, saving on average 15,000 full time employee hours per month. The intelligent software bots, known as digital workers, automate processes to achieve efficiencies across various Insignia business units, ranging from finance to operations ...