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Finance employees remain fearful

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... Workforce Confidence Index, the financial services sector ranked second in terms of individual confidence, which encompasses workers' ability to get and keep a job, improve their financial situation and advance in their careers. Yet, finance employees ...

ISA, Grattan find common ground

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... value of the pension to CPI - vastly inflating its value relative to community living standards," ISA said. "It claims all workers continuously receiving the full super guarantee in every year of their working life, despite research showing almost one ...

ERS doesn't justify higher SG: Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... super accounts entirely with Treasury expecting total withdrawals to reach $42 billion. "Retirement incomes will fall for workers who withdraw their super, but not by as much as might be thought," Grattan said. "The pension means test means that the ...

Chief economist update: Good US employment news is not so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... seven-year low reading of 90.9. The bad news: The rate of job creation in July has slowed sharply from the 4.8 million workers added to the economy in the previous month. In addition, while the unemployment rate has sequentially fallen from the 14.7% ...

Government introduces pandemic payment

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
Workers in Victoria who are required to isolate for two weeks and do not have sick leave entitlements will soon have access to paid pandemic leave. The government will introduce at $1500 disaster payment for workers in Victoria that do not have sick ...

Chief economist update: A tiny bug takes down the largest economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... factories to shutter and people to stay at home. The gradual lifting of shutdowns and re-opening of businesses - allowing workers to return to work and consumers back in the shops - indicate that the US economy would rebound in the following quarter. ...

Insurers COVID-19 response slammed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... security of employment doesn't have a clear purpose. He said ADL assessments are "exploitative of the most vulnerable workers" and make mental health claims exceptionally difficult. "The ADL definition and policies that offer limited cover while ...

Queenslanders drain super: ISA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... the first 0.5% increase to occur in the middle of next year. "But a noisy mob of Coalition backbench MPs want to take workers' increases away," ISA said. "Ditching the increase would have a dire impact on the savings of those who have accessed early ...

Hume calls out ERS fake news

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... impacted by COVID-19 would extend until January 2021. Those initiatives include the commitment to ensure frontline healthcare workers would not be excluded from obtaining life insurance cover. McCormack said he was encouraged that it looked like the ...

Government announces $184bn deficit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... giving an economic and fiscal update. "The government has acted swiftly and decisively to provide economic support for workers, households and businesses of around $289 billion or the equivalent of 14.6% of GDP," they said. "This necessary and unprecedented ...