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An industry fund vision for retirement comfort

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... out. Mount Alexander Shire Council was the first to have an enterprise agreement that included the program approved by Fair Work Australia in October. "We knew this would help our employees to save more for their retirements. And we knew it was a positive ...

Xenophon team introduce unpaid super Bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... that's aligning super guarantee payments to the wage cycle, abolishing the monthly $450 threshold, and granting the Fair Work Ombudsman greater power to recoup unpaid super has been introduced in Parliament. Rebekha Sharkie, federal member for Mayo ...

Super associations unite to warn against 'political panel'

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... increases the risk of politicisation, but is highly unlikely to have the judicial and legislative controls that regulate the Fair Work Commission," AIST said in its submission. "We submit that the risks of political interference and industry lobbying ...

In search of that elusive Australian animal spirit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
Yesterday's decision by the Fair Work Commission to slash Sunday and public holiday penalty rates for hospitality, restaurant, fast food, retail and pharmacy workers threw another spanner in the works for RBA Governor Philip Lowe's positive outlook ...

Bus operator fails to pay super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... backgrounds will face court over thousands of dollars of alleged underpayments. A driver for AVA Travel contacted the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) after staff received a text message requiring them to provide an ABN and informing them that they would be ...

Whistleblower protections under microscope

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... existing whistleblower provisions already operating in Australia, including those under the recent amendments to the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Act 2016, and overseas in major comparable jurisdictions. It also critiques existing Australian ...

Super members should face "better off test"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
... calling for banks to ban all sales incentives relating to superannuation. It also wants the Federal Government to restart Fair Work Commission processes to build a merit based safety net of default funds for Australians that rely on their employer's ...

Default super system splits industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... from product providers or employers with conflicted interests. "Default fund selection - overseen by the independent Fair Work Commission - has worked exceptionally well to protect the interests of an estimated two thirds of working Australians and optimise ...

Productivity Commission should focus on Choice underperformance: AIST

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... the next term of government, the Government needs to address the current hiatus on default fund selection and let the Fair Work Commission get on with the work it has been tasked to do by Parliament. The more this process is stalled, the more uncertainty ...

Bowen draws red line on default fund choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... Labor Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said during an interview on ABC 7.30. He defended the current system in which the Fair Work Commission determines the default superannuation funds for each industry: "It is in the best interest of members and there ...