BREAKING Australia’s lowest paid workers will receive an inflation-busting wage increase after the industrial umpire raised the national minimum pay by 5.2 per cent, the highest rise since 2006. auspol
Australia’s lowest paid workers will receive an inflation-busting wage increase after the industrial umpire raised the national minimum pay by 5.2 per cent, the highest rise since 2006.
The national minimum wage will rise to $21.38 an hour from 1 July and is paid to about 180,000 Australians. It is equivalent to a pay raise of $40 a week and takes the weekly minimum wage to $812.60.
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