Published: March 11, 2019
Bill Shorten says ‘everything in Australia has gone up except for people’s wages’
Labor will change the rules used by the Fair Work Commission to set the minimum wage to lift it above the “unfair” rate of $18.93 an hour, Bill Shorten has said.
At a press conference on Tuesday Shorten confirmed that Labor’s changes to lift the minimum wage will require changes to legislation, although the proposal falls short of the more extreme option backed by unions to effectively peg the minimum wage to 60% of the median wage.
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