{"id":209215,"date":"2025-12-31T01:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209215\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:24:07","slug":"new-retirement-plan-proposed-for-cane-growers-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209215\/","title":{"rendered":"New retirement plan proposed for cane growers \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sugarcane-Farmers.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>{File Photo}<\/p>\n<p>The Sugar Cane Growers Council is considering a dedicated superannuation savings scheme to improve long-term financial security for cane growers.<\/p>\n<p>The Council states it has started discussions with the Fiji National Provident Fund to assess whether a structured savings system can be introduced with contributions deducted directly from growers\u2019 cane payments.<\/p>\n<p>It says while growers can currently join FNPF on a voluntary basis, a more formal arrangement could offer stronger protection for more than 10,000 active growers.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Council believes the regular cane payment cycle provides a practical way to support steady savings for growers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>It says consultations will be held across cane-growing districts to gather views and ensure the proposal reflects industry needs.<\/p>\n<p>The Council adds that changes to the Master Award may be explored to support the framework, while keeping it fair and workable.<\/p>\n<p>It says discussions with key stakeholders will continue and growers will be kept informed as the process moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"{File Photo} The Sugar Cane Growers Council is considering a dedicated superannuation savings scheme to improve long-term financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-209215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}