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Employees will quit on full return-to-office orders: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
Financial services professionals will threaten to quit if they are forced to go into the office five days a week, a Robert Walters survey finds. The survey based on more than 2000 Australian workers found that nine out of 10 will look for a new job ...

Budget 2024: Government heeds industry calls to better support women

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... participation limit will be changed to 100 hours over four weeks. It will also no longer capture study, volunteering or travel time and will only apply to employment. According to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, 2.65 million Australians are carers ...

Australians need $1.6m for comfortable retirement: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... another said, "not having to worry about everyday livings costs and energy bills, being able to eat out once a week and travel in Australia in our caravan." For another, comfortable meant "having enough money to take an overseas trip every few years ...

Blockchain mining companies sued by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
ASIC has taken legal action against three blockchain mining companies - NGS Crypto, NGS Digital, and NGS Group - along with their sole directors Brett Mendham, Ryan Brown and Mark Ten Caten. The corporate regulator has accused the NGS companies of targeting ...

Former adviser slapped with 12 charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... licensed under We Are Gen Y for three months until December 2021. Last August, the court froze his assets and enforced interim travel restraints. At the latest hearing, the court granted Valvo conditional bail which included that he surrenders his passport ...

Super fund expenditure to be exposed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... advice, member services, marketing, trustee board (including director remuneration), and other corporate overheads such as travel and entertainment. APRA will also publish the recipients of payments made by each fund to industrial bodies and related ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible." In one experiment, Kahneman found people were more willing to travel 20 minutes to save $5 on a $15 calculator but were less likely to travel the same distance to save $5 on a $125 calculator. ...

ASFA Retirement Standard hits record high

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... cost of medical services increased 1.2% in the December quarter, and over the summer months the cost of domestic holiday travel and accommodation rose by 3.9%," Delahunty added. ASFA concluded that it finds retirees continue to face significant cost ...

Inflation falls to 4.1%, RBA weighs rate cut

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
... price increases this quarter included tobacco (7%), new dwelling purchases by owner-occupiers (1.5%), domestic holiday travel and accommodation (3.9%), and medical and hospital services (1.2%). HSBC Australia and New Zealand chief economist Paul Bloxham ...

Gender pay gap reporting to be scrutinised

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024
... the facts. The conversation can then be about what steps are being taken to address imbalances, and if the direction of travel is positive," she said. Ryan does not believe that companies are prepared. "I think the first round will probably be a shambles ...
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