The retirement savings of almost 3.6 million workers, including 2.2 million women will be spared from Tony Abbott’s cuts following news that the Palmer United Party will vote to save the low income super contribution. ACTU President Ged Kearney welcomed Mr Palmer’s announcement and said it was a huge win for some of Australia’s lowest […]
1.5 million Australian workers will see an $18.70 boost in their pay packets this week and around 8.4 million workers will see their superannuation contributions increase to 9.5% – all hard fought for by Australian workers and their Unions. “Hardworking Australians deserve decent wages when they’re working and security in retirement,” ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver […]
Australian workers who currently earn up to $37,000 per year get a tax rebate from the Federal Government’s Low Income Superannuation Contribution (LISC). Eligible workers receive up to $500, paid annually back into their super account, on the tax paid on their superannuation contributions. The LISC rebate was introduced to make superannuation tax concessions more […]
Nurses, midwives and other public sector workers across the state have been dealt a nasty blow, after the NSW Court of Appeal overturned a decision regarding a 2.5 per cent salary increase. In 2013, the Industrial Relations Commission awarded nurses, midwives and other public sector employees a 2.5 per cent award increase, in addition to […]
Unions NSW submission to the Federal Government on the Discussion Paper titled ‘Better regulation and governance, enhanced transparency and improved competition in superannuation’. Donwload the Superannuation submission.
General Secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association, Brett Holmes, has accused the NSW Government and Premier Barry O’Farrell of using the cover of Christmas Eve to steal the fair entitlement of public sector workers to a modest superannuation increase. “This is Premier O’Farrell’s thanks to nurses and midwives as well as police, firefighters […]
HESTA has been named Super Fund of the Year at the 2013 SelectingSuper Awards. SelectingSuper independently assesses more than 160 super products (64 funds) each year. Only its AAA-rated funds — those considered industry leaders — are eligible for the Super Fund of the Year Award. Super Fund of the Year is selected based on […]
The Abbott Government’s announcement that it will scrap the 15 percent tax on superannuation income above $100,000 a year, while removing superannuation tax breaks for workers on less than $37,000 per year, shows the new Government is intent on rewarding the wealthy and holds worker’s needs in complete contempt. ACTU President Ged Kearney said the […]
Mark Lennon, Secretary of Unions NSW, writes: Public sector unions took action in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission to make sure that workers get both a fair pay rise and the quarter percent super increase to which they are entitled. The Industrial Relations Commission agreed with the unions. The Federal Government has put in place […]
The NSW Government is refusing to provide guaranteed, safer nursing and midwifery levels for seriously ill children, emergency departments, high dependency units and rural hospitals and multipurpose services, and safer nursing and midwifery staffing arrangements in community health services, the NSWNMA said today. The O’Farrell Government is also seeking to discount its legislated 2.5 percent […]
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