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ASIC renews leadership team

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2023
... enforcement. Tom O'Shea has been appointed as senior executive leader, enforcement inquiries and compliance. He joins from the Fair Work Ombudsman with over 10 years' experience as an enforcement regulator. Within the regulation and supervision team ...

Former advisers costs CBA $1.2bn in remediation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... branches, offshore jobs, and force staff to work in the office for half the time. The union recently lodged a dispute at the Fair Work Commission challenging the bank's direction. FSU national secretary Julia Angrisano said: "CBA's record profit demonstrates ...

CBA staff head to Fair Work over WFH policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023
The Finance Sector Union will front the Fair Work Commission on behalf of Commonwealth Bank staff, fighting the banking giant's mandate that staff be in the office 50% of the time. At the end of May, CBA told staff that they would be required to work ...

Suncorp wage scandal comes to a head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
Suncorp has signed an Enforceable Undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman and reimbursed its staff with a back-payment of $32 million, inclusive of interest and superannuation. Suncorp underpaid nearly 16,000 employees between May 2014 and March 2022. ...

Wage increases to offset more rate hikes: Experts

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
The Fair Work Commission lifted Australia's minimum and award wages by 5.75% to alleviate incomes eroded by inflation, but experts say the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) won't be backing off anytime soon. Speaking this morning, Fair Work Commission ...

Reserve Bank is done at 3.85%: CBA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023
... June following an extended period of aggressive policy tightening by the RBA, he commented. That said, the upcoming Fair Work Commission decision on the national minimum wage will be critical for the outlook for wages growth along with inflation and ...

Federal budget 2023: Winners and losers

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... youngest eligible child from eight to 14. Aged care workers: The government will make good on a recommendation from the Fair Work Commission to increase award wages of over 250,000 workers in the aged care sector by 15%. Defence personnel: The government ...

RBA appointments prompt debate

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
The decision by Treasury to appoint former Fair Work Commission president Iain Ross and former AustralianSuper chair Elana Rubin as part-time members of the RBA board has sparked debate. Following the release of the review of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

ISA renews calls for gig worker super

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2023
... cases, living with a disability. However, they are not entitled to Superannuation Guarantee contributions under the Fair Work Act 2009. The typical gig worker, working in transport or food delivery and performing an average of 14.5 hours a week at $24 ...

RBA steadies cash rate, flags more hikes

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... economic outlook, this reinforces the need for a sustainable wage increase for the 2.66 million award employees under the Fair Work Commission's annual wage review," he said. Looking toward the rest of 2023, Lowe commented: "In assessing when and how ...