The Australian Council of Trade Unions will push the Fair Work Commission to grant a 4.5 per cent lift in the minimum wage at the upcoming annual wage review.
Labor will lobby the minimum-wage-setting authority to give low-paid workers a pay rise above inflation, as it seeks to make ...
the Australian Labor Party recommends that the (Fair Work) commission award an economically sustainable real wage increase to Australia’s award workers," part of the party's submission reads.