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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 ...

Rural slavery risk raises ESG alarm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
Investors in rural industries may face reputational and legal risk, as a new report warns 16,400 people are trapped in modern slavery in NSW. Agriculture, horticulture and meat processing in rural and regional areas, as well as labour hire companies ...

Parental leave super narrows gender savings gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... become optional undermined the policy's intent altogether, being to boost the super balances of new mums and narrow the gender super gap. Modelling from AustralianSuper shows a 30-year-old man earning the average wage of $1983 per week with an average ...

DEI code to boost retention: CFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... can have a serious economic impact when done properly. A 2015 McKinsey Global Institute report found that addressing the gender gap alone in global workforces can add an extra US$12 trillion to global GDP over a 10-year period. Companies with the most ...

Australia fails benchmark for female-led funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... global average of 12.5%, the latest Alpha Female Report finds. Citywire's annual analysis, which tracks the progress of gender parity in asset management, calculated 903 Australian fund managers in its database and found that only 3% of strategies ...

HESTA urges ASX300 to heed investor concerns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... has set out its engagement priorities ahead of the upcoming AGM season. Key areas include climate change, nature loss, gender equality and fair working conditions. This marks the fifth consecutive year the super fund has sent such a letter as part of ...