Minimum hourly rate would rise to $22.88 – or $45,337 a year – if the Fair Work Commission grants the increase
“While Australia appears to have turned a corner on inflation, it still remains stubbornly high,” he said.
“Pushing for unsustainable wage increases while the economic outlook remains precarious jeopardises the viability of small businesses and the jobs they sustain and create.”, said Labor’s values “haven’t changed” since it backed a minimum wage rise in line with inflation at the 2022 election. The government’s submission will be made public on Friday.
Burke told Radio National that award wages go “all the way up to some people who are on significantly higher wages”, hinting the government could accept that not all workers should receive a rise in line with inflation. “The principles that we dealt with last year was to say no government ever wants anyone to go backwards … we put forward the principle that the focus needed to be on the people on the lowest incomes because they had the least savings, they had the least room to move.”“Remember, [Albanese] held up that dollar coin, he promised you’d see real wage rises under his government. So where are they?”
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