The Australian centre-left federal government has backed a minimum wage increase for the country’s workers arguing that pay rates “should not go backwards.”
The submission from the government comes in a bid to help Australians cope with rising cost of living pressures including inflation rates of 5.1 percent, with the Reserve Bank of Australia estimating it will reach six percent by the end of June 2022.
“Keeping wages low is no longer a position from the government of Australia, we want to make sure that wages can get moving, and the first step of that was taken today,” Tony Burke, the minister for employment, told reporters on June 3….