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CBA owes staff $15 million

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... Australia (CBA) notified the Finance Sector Union (FSU) it will have to reimburse staff after a series of errors resulted in workers being underpaid. Thousands of current and former employees of CBA and BankWest have been underpaid due to accounting ...

Finance job opportunities rise post-RC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... growth in vacancies. Sunsuper chief economist Brian Parker said: "The rise in demand for community and personal service workers was the stand out occupational group last year, but even that sector fell 7.7% last quarter." Other industries to perform ...

FSU seeks transparency on CBA job cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... Financial Sector Union said it wrote to CBA chief executive Matt Comyn asking to confirm or deny these reports so that "workers know where they stand." "CBA needs to come clean and tell workers what their plans are. Unconfirmed speculation of this size ...

Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... Institute has renewed calls to scrap the Superannuation Guarantee increase as its updated projections show most Australian workers will only cop - at worst - an 11% fall in their income after retiring. The think tank updated its retirement income projections ...

Superannuation Guarantee continues to fail employees: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
A new study debunks the myth that blue-collar workers are the occupational group most likely not to receive their superannuation entitlements. Using ATO data from 2015/16, Mercer's Unsupered report reveals of the 397,900 salaried employees who are ...

Superannuation funds flag $113bn merger

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... members who work in the teaching, nurse and carer community. It merged with Victoria-based Health Super, which served workers in the health and community services industry, in 2011. At the time, it would create a $28 billion-plus fund with over 750,000 ...

Federal Budget: Industry responds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... opportunity to take action on the millions of Australians missing out on super entitlements - particularly women and younger workers. "The Government could have made these issues a priority by paying super on parental leave, and abolishing the $450 per ...

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... livelihoods on the line. They start early and finish late. They manage the front desk and the back office. They pay their workers first and take their own wages last. We want small businesses to prosper, and we are backing them to do so," Frydenberg ...

Frydenberg makes big promises for small business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... has announced a fast tracking of lower taxes for 3.4 million small and medium sized businesses, employing 7.1 million workers. The Treasurer said the Government will cut taxes for all business with an annual aggregated turnover below $50 million to 25%. ...

HESTA appoints new director

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019
The $46 billion industry fund for health and community service workers has appointed a new director. Sophie Ismail was appointed to the HESTA board this month, representing the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Ismail will replace Michael Borowick ...