Pay rise for Aust, workers
NZPA Melbourne The Arbitration Commission yesterday awarded Australia’s 6.2 million workers a 4.3 per cent pay increase.
The commission’s sevenmember national wage bench granted the rise as the first step in the introduction of a new pay-fixing system based on sixmonthly wage indexation. The head of the bench and commission president, Sir John Moore, told a packed court room of the commission’s decision to introduce a set of new pay-fixing Bles which will ly end the nine-month wage freeze.
But the 4.3 per cent increase, which will apply from October 6, will not automatically be awarded to ail workers. Sir John said that under the new wage system unions would be required to give a public and unequivocal commitment to the new payfixing principles before they received the increase. The commission would begin dealing with union applications for the increase in Sydney on October 6.
The commission’s decision will mean a worker on male average earning of sAust34s a week will get a rise of $14.84 a week.
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Press, 24 September 1983, Page 11
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