Salad Days
Fiona Katauskas
16 June 2022
Following a review, the Fair Work Commission announced a 5.2 per cent increase (around $40 per week) to the national minimum wage. Critics claimed that any increase in the minimum wage would drive up inflation, which had increased by 1.8 per cent over the previous three months.
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