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AMIST criticised for SPC investment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... revenue in excess of $2.9 billion. Peregrine and the Shahin family have been accused of wage theft and serious violations of workers' rights. In a 2020 decision handed down by the South Australian Employment Tribunal, OTR was ordered to pay almost $65,000 ...

Super baby bonus proposed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... date of 1 July 2022," Rest chief executive Vicki Doyle said. "The $450 threshold is preventing thousands of lower-income workers from receiving retirement savings for every dollar they earn. They can't afford for this change to be delayed any longer." ...

NSW small businesses offered support

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... as the shadow COVID-19 lockdown continues. Announced over the weekend, the NSW government package is being offered to workers, businesses, and the performing arts sector to help keep people employed. The package includes increasing the existing Small ...

It will pay to keep employees happy: Fink

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
... and the UK is at historic highs," Fink wrote. "And in the US, we are seeing some of the highest wage growth in decades. Workers seizing new opportunities is a good thing: It demonstrates their confidence in a growing economy." Fink urged chief executives ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... shelves at the supermarkets. Not because consumers have so much money to spend them on but more because covid has infected workers working mines to dig up raw materials factories need to produce the components necessary to manufacture widgets; the people ...

EISS Super finds merger partner in Cbus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... industry leaders like the Electrical Trades Union, Master Electricians and NECA," Arter said. "Cbus is a specialist fund for workers who build Australia, a fund that tailors our services such as insurance to our members. By joining together with EISS ...

Labor pledges calm in superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... a big problem, whether it's $3 billion or $5 billion. It's a huge amount of money that isn't going towards workers retirement incomes. But if you're in the position to be in government, [there are a couple of things we'd look at]," ...

ISA releases pre-election wish list

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... to raise children, get workers' super paid with their wages and protect them from ending up stuck in a dud fund. "Workers and retirees just hate it when politicians go messing with super." Almost three million Australians, about a quarter of the ...

Industry super funds launch fresh campaign

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... household name," ISA said. "The new campaign comes at an important time with recent government changes 'stapling' workers to a single super fund unless they choose otherwise. For those disengaged with super it could mean they are unknowingly ...

Super funds lambasted over nuclear holdings

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... their investments. "Superannuation is one of the great Australian projects, guaranteeing retirement income for millions of workers. Most Australians would have no idea that their retirement money is being used to finance nuclear weapons. It is incumbent ...