The minimum wage is going up by 3.5%, taking full-time pay to nearly $950 a week.
Publican Anthony McDonald says a pay rise for his staff and customers is a fair shout.
Having our punters with more and their more money in their pocket is a good thing.
But covering his increased wages bill on top of everything else going up means those punters might field the bite could.
Be that the cost of our sneedy at twenty eight bucks is not right at twenty eight. It needs to be thirty or thirty two.
The Fair Work Commission increasing the minimum wage boy three and a half percent, one point one percent above inflation, a real wage rise for almost three million award workers.
Drip in fibrosson will definitely help help me. I don't think he's enough, but is better than nothing.
An increase of eighty five cents to twenty four dollars ninety five an hour from July one, the annual minimum wage increasing to forty nine two hundred and ninety six dollars.
This decision today will be welcomed by people who keep our economy going.
Good news for workers, but employers warm. Without productivity increases, many small businesses will struggle to meet the cost. They face the risk that their ongoing viability is going to be under challenge, bosses had sought a two point five percent increased the union's four point five. The result splits.
The difference finally award wage workers. In Australia, our lowest paid workers are getting ahead again, it.
Says, after several years of galloping inflation, will need another rise next year to stay ahead. Mark Railey, seven News