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Industry flocks to JobKeeper handouts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... breakdown from the Australian Taxation Office. JobKeeper enrolments crossed 835,000 businesses employing over 5.5 million workers on May 12. But the most recent industry-level breakdown of applications is as of May 6. At that date, 13,493 financial and ...

Chief economist update: Pay cut or pay not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... participation rate from 66.0% in March to a 15-year low of 63.5% in April also helped keep the overall unemployed low - i.e. workers not working for work are not counted as unemployed. Then again, how can they when they are under house arrest and most ...

COVID-19 ushers in the future of work

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... and physical health, she argued. "That's going to have a price to pay at some point for health, or well-being, or workers getting burnt out," Yoong said. "All of that is not being factored in right now; its still novel, it's still fun to work ...

Few funds immune to ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... withdrawals. For example, HESTA - the membership of which is comprised of a significant number of healthcare and aged care workers - saw more than $230 million requested in the week to May 3. Meanwhile, Military Super also saw $30 million in redemptions ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Australia's agricultural exports which makes up 3% of GDP and brings in around 13% of total exports income... and the workers employed in the industry and the ancillary sectors that service the industry. China's trade ban/boycott could expand ...

TradeFloor acquires tech solutions

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... TradeFloor solutions as well. "OpenMarkets Group has been able to rehire some CCUBE staff members at a time when so many workers have been impacted by COVID-19 and for that, we are immeasurably grateful."

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... million expected to be handed pink slips. Never mind, too, that the March employment numbers showed there were even more workers out of work that month - 870K versus the initial estimate of 701K. To top these all, the CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge ...

Frontline worker death nominations spike

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... shared new data revealing a sharp increase in enquiries on life insurance and updates to death nominations for essential workers. Scott Cameron said the five offerings over which he serves as trustee - Catholic Super, Equipsuper, My Life My Super, Transport ...

Early release applications top $9bn

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... people have applied for early release of super, amounting to $9 billion in early release payments. The super funds for workers in the industries that have been decimated by COVID-19 including Rest, Hostplus, Qantas Super, Media Super and Sunsuper have ...

Industry fund swaps insurers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... cover, while weekly general cover for both death and TPD will be $1.459. These rates are slightly lower for white collar workers or professionals, as $0.740 per week for a unit of death cover, and $1.179 both death and TPD. Members with death and/or ...