Australia’s lowest-paid workers will get a $13 a week pay rise.
This means the national minimum wage will rise by 1.75 per cent to $753.80 a week or $19.84 per hour from July 1, the Fair Work Commission announced today.
The rise falls well short of the three per cent increase to the minimum wage last year.
Commission president Justice Iain Ross says it comes amid a significant downturn in Australia’s economy, driven by the coronavirus.
“The shock to the labour market has been unprecedented,” Mr Ross said in a recorded message released this morning.
There are also significant downside risks to the economy ahead, he said, including the potential threat of a second wave of coronavirus infections.
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