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HESTA calls for reforms to help women in retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... compared to female workers modelled to retire this year." Since July 1, employers have been required to pay 12% of eligible employees' ordinary time earnings, up from 11.5%. The introduction coincided with the super payments on Commonwealth Paid Parental ...

Return to office will harm careers, businesses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... than the national average, particularly for top earners, the review shows. And now the impacts of what happens when employees don't return to the office despite a mandate being in place are becoming increasingly evident. The three main consequences identified ...

ESG experts' earning potential revealed

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... and $110,000, with Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane offering the highest at $120,000. Overall, financial services employees saw their pay packets rise 12% in the last 12 months, outpacing salary growth for lawyers and technology professionals. The ...

AustralianSuper taps NYC pension deputy CIO

MATT TOLEDO  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... and head of private equity of the New York City Retirement Systems, five pension funds that serve the city's public employees. The five funds, overseen by the comptroller, manage $288.59 billion, as of the end of May. The office of the New York City ...

Former board member kickstarts crowdfunding for CalPERS probe

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
A former California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) board member is seeking to launch an independent investigation into the pension fund for alleged mismanagement and misconduct and hopes to raise the funds to do so via GoFundMe. Margaret ...

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

ALEXANDRE PROST  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... some cases due to 'one-off' windfall gains. There are situations where these increases are justified, but when most employees receive smaller, or even below-inflation increases, investors have a responsibility to engage with companies on this anomaly. ...

HESTA progresses gender diversity targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... payment of 26 weeks' parental leave, and the returnship initiative from Generation Investment Management which supports employees returning from extended leave. In terms of its own progress, HESTA noted that 42% of its investment management team is female ...

Mind the reporting gap: ASX companies urged to improve

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... leading sustainability reporting framework. The most commonly disclosed issues were diversity of governance bodies and employees, local community engagement, programs for upskilling staff, and OHS management. UNSW also noted the issues reporting is typically ...

Young workers drive DEI in workplace: RIAA panel

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... percentages." It remains a big challenge to do this though, due to talent shortage. Pozzo said that the market for new employees coming from TAFE, and the pool of apprentices, have dwindled in recent years. On gender diversity, fellow panelist Jennifer ...

Public sector pay gap revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... for total median remuneration and 22% for the median base salary despite recording an equal number of male and female employees. The data showed that women make up 60% of the lower quartile of paid positions, and only 34% of the upper quartile. The RBA ...