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Fintechs receive JobMaker funding boost

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... invoicing by 1 July 2022 for all Commonwealth government agencies ($3.6m); and Improvement of digital skills to help connect workers and small and medium-sized businesses ($2.5m). Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the initiatives are in addition to ...

Insurers prepare for tragic COVID-19 fall-out

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... able to find a new role which decreased her anxiety and social isolation. Allianz also recently released a report into workers compensation claims costs relating to mental health, finding these have increased by 80% in the last three years. The research ...

LGS partners with SuperFriend

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... low stress in government occupations - public administration and safety came in as one of the top three industries where workers felt their workplace contributed to deteriorating mental health. "It's really impressive to see LGS committing to improving ...

Media Super names new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... covered printing and visual arts employees, while JUST Super covered journalists, actors, musicians and entertainment workers. "It's been great fun and we've been privileged to play a fiduciary role in one of the great financial experiments in Australia ...

BOQ expects to back pay $11m in SG

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
The Bank of Queensland has failed to pay several workers their superannuation benefits, in a failure that could potentially blow out to $11 million in back payments. The bank has already accounted for $2.4 million of superannuation owed to employees ...

Super-backed company develops COVID treatment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... successful, Ena's therapy could have significant benefits, especially for those most at risk, such as frontline healthcare workers and the elderly," he said. "We are very excited to invest in medical research that will, hopefully, contribute to providing ...

Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... future retirement outcomes. What we do know is that those who took up the offer, who were mainly younger and lower income workers, may be disproportionately affected due to the effect of compound earnings," Hambly said. Coming in at 10th, Australia this ...

No evidence lower SG will result in higher wages: ACTU summit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... declined by around $1000 a year. So, there has been no wage growth and in fact, real wages have gone backwards." Dawson said workers have not only missed out on wage growth but have also lost out on a significant chunk of money that could have been compounding ...

Remembering Susan Ryan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... done." "The best way we honour her is to rekindle reforms to prevent discrimination and to equalise the situation of women workers, who overall are behind their male counterparts."

Chief economist update: UK's winter of discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... guests at wedding and receptions and indoor sports, face masks compulsory for bar staff and non-seated customers, shop workers and waiters, and fines for beaches doubled to £200 for a first offense and up £10,000 for businesses. If anything proves ...