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Low wage growth a deliberate design feature: ACTU

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
... over the entire term of the Morrison government, real wages have fallen by 2.3%. This is the first time this century that workers' real incomes are lower as they head to the polls than they were the last time they voted. Surging inflation has cut the ...

ATO slammed for failing to collect billions in unpaid super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... reluctance to 'proactively' investigated unpaid super claims has led to it collecting a dismal 15% of what Australian workers are owed." ISA continued stating: "The ATO themselves have admitted that its compliance has next to no impact in reducing how ...

Spirit Super pays tribute to Doug Fry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
... benefited from the fund Doug helped establish," Spirit Super chair Naomi Edwards said. "His energy and commitment to Tasmanian workers has built a perpetual legacy, strong today thanks to his foresight, dedication and hard work. "Tasmanians right across ...

Real unemployment far higher than ABS claims: Roy Morgan

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... statistics. The findings showed that nearly all the employment growth in the labour market had come from businesses hiring more workers on a part-time basis to cover for isolating employees. These new workers are generally hired on reduced hours. Since ...

Vale Tom McDonald

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... Swan said. "Tom McDonald leaves a $3.4 trillion legacy, spread across the retirement accounts of millions of Australian workers. Australians enjoying secure retirements owe a big debt to Tom's industrial leadership. "Very few in public life have made ...

APRA 'digging into' super fund contributions to unions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022
... done some preliminary investigations about payments to unions. Bragg has claimed that superannuation which should be for workers has turned into a sinkhole for unions and banks. In a March press release he said: "It is hard to think of another policy ...

Westpac now an open book on pay

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022
... Equality Authority, the full-time gender pay gap in financial services in Australia is 26.9% while the gap for part-time workers is around 29.5%. On International Women's Day this year, the UK government announced an initiative to combat the gender pay ...

Cash bonus and fuel excise cut

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... also known as the 'lamington' tax offset - beyond the current financial year though, meaning that millions of workers could be in for a tax hike from July 2023.

Accountants lobby for 10 budget reforms

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2022
... of their take home pay earlier. Grant said single touch payroll is accurate enough there is no longer any need to slug workers an arbitrary 20% tax rate for working a second or third job trying to get by. "Let's provide our lowest paid workers with access ...

HESTA pushes forward with internalisation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
The $68 billion industry fund for health workers is pushing forward with an ambitious internalisation program. The fund recently reached a key milestone, with its in-house Australian equities team now actively investing. The Australian equities being ...