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Boards unprepared for new workplace laws: Research

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023
... Effective December 12, the Australian Human Rights Commission is now enforcing the Positive Duty under the Sex Discrimination Act, requiring companies to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. Under the new laws, workplaces can be held liable for ...

KPMG proposes tax offset, reform to boost gender equality

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2022
... This recommendation would help to address the super and pay gaps and could be achieved by amending the Sex Discrimination Act to ensure companies can make higher super payments for their female employees. Alternatively, developing clear guidance to employers ...

Companies failing harassment victims: ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... harassment. Jenkins is hopeful that, according to recommendations from the Human Rights Commission, the Sex Discrimination Act will be updated so that it is not only enacted once victims complain. She hopes the legislation will put positive duties on ...

KPMG recommends super changes

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... contributions to be made for recipients of Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave without time limit. It also wants the Sex Discrimination Act to be amended to allow willing employers to make higher superannuation payments for female employees. Rice Warner ...

Remembering Susan Ryan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... Special Minister of State. It was during this time that Ryan fought to end sex discrimination, sponsoring the Sex Discrimination Act, which was passed in 1984, and the Affirmative Action Act 1986 ; the impact of which has and will continue to benefit ...

Retirement income review must focus on women: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... limited ability to supplement their own mandatory super contributions. The submission also calls for the Sex Discrimination Act to be amended to ensure employers who pay additional amounts to people who have taken on additional burdens of primary care ...

Labor commits $400m to gender super gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2018
... Government will also make it easier for employers to contribute extra into a woman's super fund by amending the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, as well as consider and publish the impact that any future super reforms would have on women. With super added ...

Super rules for women still unclear

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... some employers were already paying women more super but had to apply for a specific exemption from the Sex Discrimination Act. His bill "would remove that requirement." Federal Senator and Attorney-General, George Brandis, allegedly wrote to Bandt explaining ...
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