State and territory ministers accuse federal Skills Minister Stuart Robert of failing to genuinely negotiate and address key concerns around a $3.7 billion national skills deal. Follow updates here.
Employers want this year’s minimum wage increase to be tempered by an equivalent 1.3 per cent wage rise that they say workers will enjoy from the Morrison government’s one-off cost of living payments.
Innes Willox, head of the Australian Industry Group, says a moderate increase will build on the growth in jobs and hours that has lifted incomes more than wage rises have.The employer group argues this would still result in a 3.8 per cent increase for low-paid workers given the 0.5 percentage point increase in superannuation in July and the equivalent of a 1.3 per cent rise from the budget’s low- and middle-income tax offset increase.
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