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Industry warns ’small business can’t afford it’ after Albanese backs 5.1% minimum wage rise

Employers argue that excessive minimum pay increases will fuel inflation as unions call for ‘incredibly reasonable’ boost to meet cost of living pressures

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SA aged care workers use day off to rally for better work conditions after strike action delayed until after federal election

Hundreds of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia walk off the job in a stand for better pay and work conditions, but South Australian aged care staff remained diligently at work after the Fair Work Commission put off their strike until the day after the federal election.

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Election 2022: Anthony Albanese backs 5.1% minimum wage rise to keep pace with inflation

Labor leader says he ‘absolutely’ supports increase, after earlier declining to commit to figure pushed by unions

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Overwhelming support for federal government to pay for aged care wage increase, Vote Compass shows

Aged care worker Carlton Williams also has a hospitality job to makes ends meet — and says he gets "paid more to pour drinks and wait tables" than to "look after someone's life".

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ACTU urges Morrison to discipline wage panel member over ‘extraordinary’ public comments

Mark Wooden reportedly said Labor was playing ‘political games’ by saying it would lift wages

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Labor focuses on wages but avoids target

Anthony Albanese has used a Labour Day march to spruik his plan for stronger wages under Labor to thousands of unionists in Brisbane.

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Albanese pledges to make gender pay equity a Fair Work Act objective

Anthony Albanese has pledged a Labor government would make gender pay equity an objective of the Fair Work Act and strengthen the Fair Work Commission’s powers to order pay rises for workers in low paid industries dominated by women.

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Aged care: What the major parties are promising this election

Aged care worker Glen O'Driscoll says staff are overworked and worn out. The Coalition has promised billions since the royal commission, but Labor is making aged care an election issue.

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Aged care workers bid for higher wages

Australia's aged care workers are underpaid compared to someone working at Bunnings or at a pub, the Fair Work Commission has been told.

AAP

A Fair Work Commission decision means 'big changes' are coming to home care from July 1

A Fair Work Commission decision to give part-time carers a minimum shift of two hours could have big consequences for people who use home care packages.

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Aged care workers across Australia vote to take industrial action

Union says vote overwhelmingly supports action that could include strikes and is likely to occur before federal election

The Guardian - AU

Victorian government calls for paid family violence leave for all workers

Take up of entitlement small, but the benefits are ‘far outweighing’ costs to businesses, academic says

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Fruit and veg pickers' minimum wage arrives this month and then we'll see the true cost of food

From April 28, changes to the Horticulture Award mean that farm workers typically paid according to how much produce they pick or pack must be guaranteed a minimum hourly rate.

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Thousands yet to receive aged care bonus

More than half of all eligible aged care workers have yet to receive their first cash bonus from the federal government.

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Aged care bodies and unions demand Coalition match Labor’s pledge to fund potential wage rises

Federal opposition says it will pay any increase ordered by Fair Work Commission but Coalition has stopped short of such a guarantee

Newcastle Herald

Aged care emerging as crucial election battlefront

It was heartening to finally hear a political leader acknowledge the crisis in aged care.

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This teenager says Subway ripped her off, and she's taking her fight to the Fair Work Commission

When international student Carla asked why she hadn't been paid, she was sacked. A parliamentary committee says wage theft in Australia is widespread.

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Aged care pay rise not in federal budget

The federal government has not yet budgeted for an aged care worker pay rise, ahead of a Fair Work Commission decision on the issue later this year.

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Hospitality industry calls for pay freeze for Australia’s lowest-paid workers

If minimum wage rises it’s ‘only a matter of time’ before cafes charge $7 for a coffee, employers say

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Labor's budget reply goes big on aged care, similar on much else

In most years, the opposition leader’s budget reply passes virtually unnoticed.

AAP

ACTU pushes for 5pct wage rise for workers

Unions will push for a sharp rise in wages for low paid workers in the current round of the Fair Work Commission's annual wage review.

The Guardian - AU

Qantas concerned by order to reinstate safety instructor fired for allegedly staring at colleague’s chest

Airline plans to appeal Fair Work Commission ruling that actions did not constitute harassment or ‘any form of ogling’

The Guardian - AU

‘They all play hard’: what happened when Kimberley Kitching came to Canberra?

After a six-year upper-house career, the Labor senator’s sudden death has prompted an outpouring of grief – and recrimination

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Aged care workers earn so little that they have virtually no cash at the end of the week

In an aged care sector expected to need 110,000 extra workers by 2030, wages are so low that people are leaving the sector.

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Cost of living pressures leave some aged care workers with no money to spare

New modelling shows an aged care worker with no partner or dependents has $112 a week left after covering the costs of rent, transport, groceries and healthcare.

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