Pay system ‘failing'
The Arbitration Commission yesterday awarded Australia’s six million wage and salary earners an immediate across-the-board 3.7 per cent wage rise in wnat may be the country’s last national wage case decision. Continuing unacceptable lexZ.ls of industrial action and sharp differences between parties’ to the national wage case made the present system unworkable, the commission’s full bench said. "While no one has asked in terms that the system be abandoned, it is apparent from the submissions before us that the system in its present form has broken down,” it said. — Melbourne.
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Press, 12 January 1981, Page 10
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