Fair Work Commission gives a 5.2% – $40 a week – increase in the minimum wage
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Fair Work Commission has announced a rise in the minimum wage of 5.2% or $40 a week, taking it to $812.60 a week or $21.38 an hour.
The rise will take effect on July 1.
The increase is slightly above the increase the government had publicly supported for the minimum wage, which was 5.1%, the rate of inflation.
But award minimum wages will be...
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