FED: Workers get $12 pay rise, AIRC rules 6

AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-1999
FED: Workers get $12 pay rise, AIRC rules 6

The ACTU lost its application for a five per cent increase for people earning above $527.80
a week.

"Our decision to award flat money increases, rather than a percentage increase, will
provide proportionally greater assistance to the low paid," the commission said in its
statement.

"In all of the circumstances the approach we have adopted, both the amounts and the form of
the increases, strikes the right balance between the competing cost and equity considerations
which the parties have drawn to our attention in their submissions."

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KEYWORD: WAGES DECISION 6 MELBOURNE (REOPENS)

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