If the superannuation levy increases from 9% to 12%, and company profits do not increase because of this (unlikely), then the employer simply reduces the next pay increase (most likely).

No Vanna, they reduce staff,either that or they invest in tech that replaces staff.

Trust me, this next super increase will come with dire consequences for employees.

Just you wait and see.

Cheryl
Would you like to point to the statistics that show exactly how much women are earning compared to men.

Women in universities outnumber men in a few subject areas, namely in medicine (nursing) and social science. Men outnumber women in just about every other area, and in the areas that pay high wages.

Almost 50% of female graduates never earn enough in their lifetime to pay for their university fees, a major reason for the billions in HECS debt the country has accrued.

Men pay about 70% of personal income tax, and I do believe women should be more than grateful for that.

Unfortunately, universities do seem very keen on programming women to be anti-male, and in expecting men to give them more and more for doing less and less in time.

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/maybe-women-are-just-bad-at-asking-for-a-higher-salary/

Look at the updat3e about halfway down the original pieces and then have a look at what the reader Tim posted.

Here you go Vanna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_Australia

Cheryl,
Exactly.

"in 2008 females made up 55 per cent of students enrolled in Australian tertiary institutions.[8]."

What such propaganda rarely mentions is that female university students are concentrated in a few subject areas, and most will become government employees on middle or lower wages.

One could argue that they should be paid more, but where will the money come from?

It will have to come from the taxpayer, and the vast majority of personnal income tax is already being by men.

I believe too many men are overlooking the fact that most of what they earn eventually goes to someone else, but if that money is going to someone who wants to work only a few hours a week and retire on a government pension, then they should think more about the matter.

Men in Australia are being sucked in big time.

Oh please Cheryl the good old feminist myth of the gender "pay gap" rears its ugly head again.

Yep Julia Gillard earns a lot more then the check out chick at the local Wollworhths, are we lamenting this pay gap? Why not, all the determinants of it are exactly the same as the pay gap between any individual male and female ( and heck Julia will be much better provided for in retirement as well thanks to the obscenely lucrative superannuation Politicians have legislated for themselves, whilst showing precious little regard for their constituents plights)

The statistical gap between women's and men's earnings overall simply reflects the summed total of differences based on individual men and women choices. Nowadays women have all the same choices men have, and it is their choices that determine their ultimate financial position, not some mythical systemic discrimination against women.

Women also still have the choice of attracting a partner/spouse who will provide for them, and whilst some men may end up in a position of being provided for by a female breadwinner, it remains a rarity, and certainly could not be counted upon