Treasurer Jim Chalmers has reiterated he wants to see pay for minimum wage workers “moving” but shied away from providing a concrete figure ahead of the government’s submission to the Fair Work Commission’s wage review.
Unions have pushed for a record seven per cent increase in wages for workers on minimum wage and awards in their submission to the Fair Work Commission’s annual minimum wage review.
The review eventually sets the pay of more than 2.6 million Australians on the national minimum or award wages. He pushed back on suggestions that a seven per cent boost for Australia’s lowest paid workers was too much, telling Seven’s Sunrise program that paying workers a higher wage wasn’t causing inflationary issues.
“We’ve got an inflation challenge because of the war in Ukraine, busted supply chains which have been ignored here for a decade.”
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