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Wage increases to offset more rate hikes: Experts

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... have preferred a situation where we would do something like the Accord did 40 years ago, where the government went to the union movement said, 'if you for go an extra wage rise, we will provide help to low- and middle-income earners."

APRA probes super fund payments to unions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
During a Senate Economics Committee session yesterday, it was revealed that APRA is investigating the financial relationships between superannuation funds and unions. APRA deputy chair Margaret Cole confirmed the regulator's ongoing scrutiny into certain ...

Risk of recession growing: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
AMP chief economist Shane Oliver says the risk of recession is rising alongside the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) rate increases. Earlier in the week, the Australian share market rallied following the decision by US lawmakers to raise the debt ...

Treasury proposes upping supervisory levies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
Treasury has proposed a 1.5% increase in the Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies for the 2023-24 financial year, including a $7.2 million budgetary boost for APRA. Treasury papers revealed the total funding required under the levies in 2023-24 ...

BlackRock orders staff four days in office

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... always have been, but we have also got to make sure our people are trained and developed well," he said. The Finance Sector Union slammed NAB and Westpac during the throes of the pandemic for their poor work from home policies, putting employees' health ...

Tishman Speyer, Raffles Family Office launch APAC fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... milestone in the New York-based developers' expansion into Asia Pacific gateway cities, and the start of a significant union with Raffles Family Office and their investors. "Together, Tishman Speyer and RFO will create a compelling portfolio that ...

RBA appointments prompt debate

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... are around the table and that there's a rigorous process," he said. "So, we're not ending up with a whole lot of union officials with deep links to the Labor Party." Meanwhile, others applauded the decision. The Australian Council of Trade Unions ...

Modern slavery on the rise a decade on from Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... we've seen - Rana Plaza, the Tazreen Fashion factory fire, other disasters - one thing they all had in common was no union representation," Carlsson said. "The factories themselves and many factory owners see unions as troublemakers, and some of ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... report on the matter and the cost to the economy. Data collection is already underway in the form of surveys distributed to union members. "We know with any numbers that it's impossible for them to be accurate... most estimates of this hypothetical ...

Could a four-day workweek save the day?

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... skilled health practitioners from the sector because of that," she explains. Dawson adds that the AAS, the Australian Services Union, and CPSU, which represents public sector workers, are other unions that are keen to see these trials extended to critical ...