Australia's lowest paid workers will get a $21.60 a week pay rise, which is less than last year but more than employer groups had argued for.
Unions had been calling for a 6 per cent rise, about $43 a week, while business groups were banking on a more modest increase of up to 2 per cent."We have decided to award a lower increase this year than that awarded last year," commission president Justice Iain Ross said. "We are satisfied that the level of increase we have decided upon will not lead to any adverse inflationary outcome and nor will it have any measurable negative impact on employment," Justice Ross said."However, such an increase will mean an improvement in real wages for those employees who are reliant on the NMW and modern award minimum wages and an improvement in their living standards.""Under the Coalition government, minimum wages have cumulatively increased by 6.
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