US embassy cable - 05CANBERRA987

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Australia: Labor Commission Lifts Minimum Wage

Identifier: 05CANBERRA987
Wikileaks: View 05CANBERRA987 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Canberra
Created: 2005-06-08 04:23:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: PGOV PREL ELAB ECON KTDB AS
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.


 
UNCLAS CANBERRA 000987 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/ANP, DRL/IL AND EB 
STATE PASS TO USTR FOR WEISEL/COEN 
LABOR FOR ILAB 
 
E.O.12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV, PREL, ELAB, ECON, KTDB, AS 
SUBJECT: Australia: Labor Commission Lifts Minimum Wage 
 
REF: CANBERRA 944 
 
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) on 
June 7 raised the hourly minimum wage by 3.6 percent to 
A$12.75, or $9.70 per hour (A$1 = US$0.76).  The minimum pay 
for the standard 38 hour work week is now A$484.40, or $368. 
The raise will affect Australia's 1.6 million lowest paid 
workers who are covered by federal and state employment 
contracts, or "awards."  The AIRC handed down the increase 
in what is expected to be its final ruling on the minimum 
wage because the Government has announced a major package of 
labor law reforms, including the creation of a Fair Pay 
Commission to set the minimum wage in future (reftel). 
STANTON 

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