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Labor wins: What super, advice industries want

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... "We must make it easier for talented individuals to join our profession. That includes offering financial support to employers of Professional Year candidates, making the exam more accessible, and ensuring flexibility in the education framework," she ...

New government must prioritise payday super: SMC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... Taxation Office (ATO) clearly articulate its proposed transition, with a "phased approach to enforcement to give comfort to employers who genuinely try to do the right thing but are unable to due to circumstances beyond their control". "The ATO expedite ...

GESB expands leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... Superannuation Act 2000, which will enable GESB to accept superannuation guarantee payments from non-WA public sector employers, benefitting the 250,000 current and former public sector workers who have superannuation accounts with GESB; as well as ensuring ...

NPP not suitable as the primary payment system for payday super

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... payment standards will be revised to allow payments via the New Payments Platform and improve error messaging to ensure employers and intermediaries can quickly address errors," the Treasury fact sheet stated. This however contrasts with the Reserve ...

Non-compete, restraint clauses to be outlawed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
From 2027, employers will no longer be able to impose non-compete clauses on employees earning less than $175,000. They will also not be able to exploit loopholes that block staff from joining competitors. Announced as part of the Federal Budget for ...

Government releases draft payday super law

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
... policy that was first flagged in the 2023-24 Federal Budget. The draft legislation stipulates that from 1 July 2026, employers must pay their employees' superannuation at the same time as their salary and wages, which the government said will ensure ...

Financial services chips away at gender pay gap: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency's (WGEA) report shows. The 2024 financial year shows that financial services employers barely closed in on their gender pay gap, although the WGEA says that they are making an effort. Financial services - which ...

Finance workers worry about job displacement from AI, government urged to take action

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
... recommendation is to amend the Fair Work Act to ensure decision making using AI and ADM is covered under the law so that employers remain liable for these decisions. Another recommendation is for the collaboration of government, employers, and peak employer ...

Rest calls for advice reforms, extending SG

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
... include a thorough consultation process and multi-year staged approach to implementation, to consider the impact to employers." The fund is also calling for urgent progress on reforms to financial advice and retirement, as well as a review into the introduction ...

APG to invest exclusively for ABP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... from economies of scale, but it will set up teams in this part that focus exclusively on serving ABP participants and employers. Notably, APG provides asset management and pension administration for four funds, and pension administration-only for the ...