Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume says Labor is “taking the sides of the union” as the government prepares to make a submission to the Fair Work Commission to advocate for a significant pay rise in the aged care sector.
Ms Hume said the unions have put forward a 25 per cent pay claim, which the government looks like it will support “as it seems to have done with all union requests” since coming into government.
“The Coalition has always said this is a decision for the Fair Work Commission – it makes those decisions in a context around the entire industry and indeed the entire economy,” Ms Hume told Sky News Australia.Read More
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