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NAB denies underpaying full-time workers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
... covering Australian and overseas employees, in consultation with PwC and King & Wood Mallesons. The FSU estimates that 58,000 workers are entitled to unpaid wages. It has been putting the pressure on NAB to remediate affected workers as quickly as possible ...

Poor financial literacy failing young workers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
As more young workers turn to mum and dad, and social media for financial advice, a new survey finds that the educational system is failing to provide practical financial literacy skills for students as they navigate the workforce. The financial education ...

Accessing super cements inequality: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... The authors of the report looked at Roy Morgan data and ANZ's Financial Wellbeing Indicator. It found that low-income workers showed a 21% decline in their ability to meet financial commitments from the pre-pandemic period to the September 2020 quarter. ...

Chief economist update: Twist in tail of Aussie economic revival

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... ninth consecutive month of expansion. "Demand continued to improve markedly, encouraging companies to hire additional workers at a survey record pace," it reads. Manufacturing continues to do well with the flash estimate rising from a final reading of ...

Raw truth on merger process: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... up about the anxiety within the funds from employees as their future plans shifted and redundancies were made. "It is workers who make the merger happen, and you cannot underestimate how much work the merger is," she said. "We had lots of plans in place ...

Aged care workers depended on ERS: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
Aged care employees relied more on the early release of superannuation (ERS) scheme compared to other workers health and community services sectors, research from HESTA reveals. The proportion of HESTA members who work in aged care and childhood education ...

Chief economist update: Confidently sustaining the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... Capacity utilisation also very high, and implies alongside the strength in a tivity, that firms may need to continue to hire workers and undertake investment in new projects to continue to grow". Wait there's more! The fine print in the NAB Business ...

Aussies regret ERS withdrawals: AIST poll

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... future and a stronger, fairer economy. There was no courageous shift in policy to leave no one behind - not the low paid workers who steered us through lockdowns, our vulnerable citizens who deserve our protection and support, or our planet. The strain ...

QSuper makes changes ahead of merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... insurance terms and conditions for members too. From 1 July members on an income protection payment who are also on a workers compensation benefit at the same time will have their income protection payment reduced by any workers compensation benefit ...

No big losers in FY22 budget

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... to work an extra day each week, Frydenberg said. Elsewhere, after many years of lobbying, the threshold that requires workers to earn a minimum of $450 a month to be paid the superannuation guarantee has been axed. It's expected to improve the financial ...