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More employers act on gender pay gap: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Employers made better strides in tackling their gender pay gaps in the 2024 financial year, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency's (WGEA) says, as one in five (21%) report an average gender pay gap in the target range of -5% and +5%. The second ...

BlackRock ditches diversity targets, drops hiring mandates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... FS Sustainability previously reported that BlackRock watered down its proxy voting guidelines for 2025, ditching its 30% gender balance target in favour of a request for companies to simply explain how diversity fits into their board composition stra ...

Economists brace for an uncertain future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... that limits people's ability to engage - we want to keep making those strides forward." According to Deloitte, addressing gender norms in Australia could generate an additional $128 billion in economic value. Flexible work arrangements, including remote ...

Investors still drawn to DEI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... perspectives on DEI. For shareholder meeting reports published on or after February 25, ISS "will no longer consider the gender and racial and/or ethnic diversity of a company's board when making vote recommendations with respect to the election ...

Activist investors set sights on paid parental leave

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... the industry. The group will now submit a shareholder resolution by the end of February asking G8 to follow the Workplace Gender Equality Agency's best practice guide in formulating a paid parental leave policy. The activist investor works by gathering ...

ESG pay skyrockets - but gap widens

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... recession, New Zealanders are leaving the country at a record rate and over half are coming to Australia," said Evans. The gender pay gap has widened to 3.8% - though still well below the national gap of 11.5%, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ...

Workplace expert joins Aware Super in new role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... leadership roles at several companies, including American Express, Deloitte Australia and Unilever. At Deloitte, he led the APAC gender pay equity strategy which resulted in Deloitte achieving its first Workplace Gender Equality Agency compliance and ...

Green moves: UN PRI, Ditchley, Honest Work

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... customer-owned bank which manages roughly $1 billion and offers sustainability-linked home and personal loans. Passionate about gender equity, she will also continue in her role as co-chair of the International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) and ...

Trump Paris exit "bad news" for rest of world

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... companies are likely to still push ahead with their diversity policies, Ashton said. The majority of the ASX 100 have set gender diversity targets, and over 80% of the ASX 100 report metrics on diversity metrics beyond gender. Research shows a diverse ...

Social-washing hides lapse in progress

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... fund agriculture to help achieve Goal 2 (Zero Hunger), engage investible companies to improve DEI outcomes towards Goal 5 (Gender Equality), or allocate capital to environmental organisations to help achieve Goal 15 (Life on Land). Instead of investing ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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