Union push to organise Google workers
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Professionals Australia will lead a push this year to organise technology workers over unpaid overtime and harassment issues, with big tech firm Google a major target.
The union is looking to expand its core membership base of engineers to the white-collar workforce in the face of huge growth predicted in the technology sector and increased demand for workers due to COVID-19 restrictions on migration.
Jill McCabe, CEO of Professionals Australia, in front of Google’s new headquarters in Melbourne.
Eamon Gallagher
The push follows more than 400 Google workers forming a union at the company’s US headquarters this month in what some observers have billed a global light on the hill in an industry known for its anti-union stance.
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Some of the biggest superannuation funds are proposing the Morrison government hands out $5000 to low-income earners for retirement after one million young workers cleared out the majority of their super to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
The futures of young workers who have lost livelihoods and career paths during the coronavirus-induced recession have sparked global concern. Unions and super funds are warning this cohort needs special attention from the federal government.
The economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is under way, but workersâ groups fear youth will bear the scars.
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The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees pre-budget submission requests a federal government contribution into super of up to $5000 for those earning less than $39,837 who withdrew money from their retirement accounts last year. AISTâs members include major funds managing billions of dollars of assets like Australian Super, Hostplus, C
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Some of the biggest superannuation funds are proposing the Morrison government hands out $5000 to low-income earners for retirement after one million young workers cleared out the majority of their super to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
The futures of young workers who have lost livelihoods and career paths during the coronavirus-induced recession have sparked global concern. Unions and super funds are warning this cohort needs special attention from the federal government.
The economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is under way, but workersâ groups fear youth will bear the scars.
Credit:
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees pre-budget submission requests a federal government contribution into super of up to $5000 for those earning less than $39,837 who withdrew money from their retirement accounts last year. AISTâs members include major funds managing billions of dollars of assets like Australian Super, Hostplus, C