Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 71 - 80 of 1233 results for "Union"

HAFF receives first round commitments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
Housing Australia and the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) have announced commitments to the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) under the first funding round. Housing Australia has selected an initial pipeline of 185 projects to potentially ...

BUSSQ board members removed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... BUSSQ board members Jacqui Collie and Michael Ravbar, both of whom are senior Construction, Forestry, and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) officials, have been replaced effective immediately. The administrator for the Queensland branch of the CFMEU ...

APRA alleges First Super co-chair breached director duties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... his duties as a director in relation to a contract between the fund and the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU). In addition to being First Super's co-chair, O'Connor is the national secretary of the manufacturing division ...

FSU campaigns against workplace surveillance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) is backing calls for a Privacy in Working Life Act to prohibit unnecessary surveillance of employees by companies and to ensure any surveillance is regulated. The Victorian government is currently undertaking an Inquiry ...

Cbus' CFMEU board directors exit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... the super fund's website earlier this week. Cbus' board comprises 14 directors, including an equal number of employer and union representatives, plus two independents. CFMEU directors typically fill three of the six union appointed trustee roles. Rita ...

NGS Super names new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2024
... January 2025. Battams is currently on the board of QIC and chairs its risk committee. He also chairs the Queensland Teachers Union Health Fund. Battams is also the current chair and managing director of Labor Holdings, an investment vehicle of the Labor ...

Vale Greg Bright

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... Standard Marketing, Advertising and Sales Excellence (MAX) Awards - and named Investor Weekly as its official media partner, a union that continued through to the maiden issue of Financial Standard in 2003. Despite being in competition with Financial ...

ISPT, IFM Investors merger advances

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... has $218.3 billion in funds under management while ISPT has $20.3 billion. IFM was created in the 1980s following a trade union campaign pushing for compulsory superannuation and industry super funds wanting to establish an institutional investment manager. ...

BUSSQ fights back against regulatory imposition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... CFMEU and concerns about its potential impact on the super fund. The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Industrial Union of Employees, Queensland (CFMEU-Q), a separate legal entity to the CFMEU, is a shareholder of BUSSQ and has appointed four ...

New bill seeks to block investments involving Cbus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024
... "untenable party" with which to do government business, adding that involving the industry fund and the scandal-plagued union in the HAFF "further risks the integrity of taxpayer funds locked in the misguided scheme." He also noted even before the scheme ...