The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has released its annual gender equality scorecard for 2014-2015. Overall, the gender pay gap for total remuneration paid to men and women has only marginally decreased from 24.7% to 24.0%. Some interesting statistics for…
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Every year produces a new crop of business fads and buzzwords. As the end of 2015 draws near, what have been the most annoying new or re-hashed buzzwords this year? Or the most insightful ones? This is a bit of…
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Ai Group’s Tennant Reed will be in Paris over the next two weeks to provide regular updates on the 2015 Climate Change Conference and its implications for Australian industry. This post provides a preview of what can be expected and links to…
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It is disappointing that the Senate has decided to waste time and energy on a national inquiry into portable long service leave – a counterproductive issue that has been pushed by the trade union movement for some time. Labor, The…
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There have been some positive signs around local economic conditions since the start of the 2015-16 financial year, with Ai Group’s performance indices for the manufacturing, services and construction sectors all showing long-overdue expansion after years of weakness. Other partial…
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If you follow the financial press, you may have noticed a raft of articles announcing that, at the current oil prices, Saudi Arabia will have run out of money by 2020. This was a reaction to a release of an…
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Last Wednesday (28/10) Ai Group was fortunate enough to attend a function announcing the South Australian Business Index Top 100, a listing of South Australia’s top 100 businesses as based on financial year revenue. It also highlighted each company’s contribution…
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